Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Screenwriting

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University website: www.hud.ac.uk
Screenwriting
Screenwriting, also called scriptwriting, is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is frequently a freelance profession.
Screenwriting
I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why – but we really need to land on that why. That’s what I’ve been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
Mara Brock Akil "New BET series aims for cross-cultural appeal" Eric Hegedus , New York Post, January 7, 2014
Screenwriting
Well, Jack Warner may have been celebrated for calling writers "Schmucks with Underwoods," but 20 years earlier Irving Thalberg … said, "The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer, and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it."
Screenwriter Steven de Souza in the documentary Dreams on Spec
Screenwriting
I moved into directing for a couple of reasons. ... Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they’re going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it’s all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I’m just gonna become a director and that’ll make it easier.'
Nora Ephron, writer/director, in the documentary Dreams on Spec
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