by Trevor Mayes | Nov 17, 2009 | Clichés, Links
Great article today at The Bitter Scriptreader about the ol’ dream cliché: Take note, writers. There are few things you could do that convince me more of your hackitude than having a cop-out ending where everything is revealed as “just a dream.” From...
by Trevor Mayes | Nov 17, 2009 | Humor, Scenes, Style
There’s a real joy that comes with learning an inside trick of the trade. In film school, one of the first such screenwriting secrets I remember learning was that funny things are made ten times funnier by showing reactions to them — reaction shots1. Show...
