Taxi Driver: A visual analysis Taxi driver – Análisis Visual de FitoRidao Here I leave you a visual analysis of the film Taxi Driver, written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese and how the story unfolds with Robert de Niro. It is in spanish but you get the idea… Taxi Driver Visual Analysis […]

You’ve finished your Screenplay and IT SUCKS – WHAT to do This post will be structured in a way so that you ask yourself the necessary questions that propel you to make the necessary changes to your first, second or third draft that you don’t get to make it work. Questions that need an answer: […]

Complex VS Complicated movies You might be thinking that there is no difference between complex and complicated movies. But in order to make that assumption we need to be sure what does complex and complicated really mean. Complicated means difficult to analyze, understand or explain. Complex means composed of many related parts, having a complicated […]

2. Act Design by Robert Mckee Progressive complications Progressive complications it’s the second element of the five-part design of a story that goes from the Inciting Incident to the Crisis/Climax. In a story it’s where the the plot gets more complicated and more conflict happens because there are more challenges for our main character/s to […]

The Inciting Incident By Mckee Every story has five major parts: Inciting Incident: the primary cause that follows that puts in motion the other four elements. Progressive complications Crisis Climax Resolution To master the Inciting incident you need to master setting. The World Of The Story The world of the story happens in a certain […]

3 MUST Reads For Writting a Screenplay There are many books that you could read that will have a lot of valuable information when writting a screenplay like “Save the Cat”, “Creating Character Arcs” or “The Hero’s Journey” but here we want to focus on 3 that we believe are the ones that after reading […]

4 KEY Tips for Scene Design Turning Point effects, Setup/Payoffs, Emotional Dynamics and Choice Scene design To understand how scenes are built, there are 4 main points that we have to go over: Turning points Setups/Payoffs Emotional Dynamics Choice These are the main principles inside a scene that a screenwriter should master according to Robert […]

Location Scouting for Indie Film (How To Guide) As Robert McKee described in his book Story Structure, there 3 main types of story plots: archplots, miniplots and antiplots. Archplots, Miniplots and Antiplots Archplots belong to classical designed stories. Miniplots belong to minimalist stories. Antiplots belong to anti-structured stories. Classical design Most Hollywood films rely on […]

How To Start A Screenplay First things first – Screenplay format The first thing you need to do to make your life way easier is to download a word preset or a screenplay software where you are 100% sure that you will be writing in a format that is accepted by the industry. It is […]

Script: PRINCIPLES, Not Rules In screenplay there are NO rules Rules say: “things that have to be done a certain way”. Meanwhile principles make reference to what works and has worked for as long as one can remember. The difference is crucial. In screenplay, there are no rules, there only exist certain principles that by […]