Screenwriting Mentorship
We understand. Sometimes you just want an expert on call. If you’re seeing screenwriting mentorship, then who better to work with than a working professional who talks with producers and studios all over the world every day of the week? Bring your ideas at whatever stage and in whatever shape they’re in, and for an hourly fee your mentor will meet you where you are and give you the absolute best guidance possible.
Perhaps you want to talk about writing tense action sequences, or the conventions of horror writing. Maybe you want to put a modern spin on a 90’s rom com, except for 30 minute TV. Or do you just feel like you’ve got writer’s block and need to run your big sci-fi mythology past an impartial expert? Whatever the issue, whatever the hour, we can assist.
And for those who ask – yes, we can help you register your ideas on the WGA site to protect your IP.
Screenwriting FAQ’s
A parenthetical is literally a pair of parentheses placed underneath a character’s name before their dialogue in a film or tv script, and comments in no more than about five words on some vital aspect of how the line is to be said, or how the actor looks, feels or behaves while saying it. It can enhance or contradict the dialogue. For example –
JOHN (so hating this) I love kids parties! or MARIA (cocking the gun) I said back off!
A logline is a couple of sentences that simply define the main concept and journey of a film or television show, without spoiling any plot points. A simple method is to use the When, Must, Until paradigm. When a certain character finds themselves in such and such situation, they must take a certain action until such and such an outcome is reached.
For example – When a group of travelers find themselves lost in a haunted forest they face tough decisions about who to sacrifice to the God of Night before first light.
