by BlueCat | May 15, 2018 | The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
There is a significant debate over whether to write for television or write movies instead. We are in a new golden age of television — peak TV. And we can all agree movies are not in a classic period of cinema. Many writers have gravitated to writing for...
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...
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