by BlueCat | May 8, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Have you ever received feedback on your script that included the suggestion to “raise the stakes”? It’s a common note—-raising the stakes. Do you know what it means? At first glance, we would think the reader is telling us to make what’s...
by BlueCat | May 1, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Writer’s block is not a mysterious condition that a wizard creates for writers. It’s not a magic spell with no way out. Getting stuck as a writer, be it in the first draft or 10th, can be very difficult to face for writers, but the solutions to your...
by BlueCat | Apr 17, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
How often do we hear, “There’s nothing new under the sun” or “Hollywood is just plain out of new ideas”? And yet, how often do we find ourselves, as movie-goers (more specifically, writers that happen to be movie-goers), pleasantly surprised when the movie we’ve just...
by BlueCat | Apr 3, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Nothing makes an action-adventure film pop quite like a well-timed joke. Whether it’s John McClane quipping while crawling through air vents or a killer robot from the future learning how to smile, a properly placed joke helps add dimensions to an action story and...
by BlueCat | Mar 6, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Short filmmakers run into a number of challenges when they start off to make a short film. Some are hesitant to get started because they’ve never made a short film before, even if they’ve written a feature script or a television pilot. How is making a...
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