How to Use Flashbacks as a Storytelling Device in TV (From Script)
In this week’s roundup brought to us by Script magazine, learn how to utilize flashbacks in your TV writing from some this season’s biggest creators, writers, and showrunners such as Marissa Jo Cerar (“Black Cake”), Graham Yost (“Silo”) and Charlotte Stoudt (“The Morning Show”). Plus learn five reasons why we watch and write movies, read an exclusive interview with the directors behind Netflix’s animated feature Leo, and prolific television and movie producer and author David Craig.
SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 510 – 15 Cameras, Making a Unique Sequel with Danny Madden
15 Cameras director Danny Madden talks about how he made this sequel his own stand-alone film, yet still fit within the trilogy and how he got his start in animation.
A Story From the Heart: An Interview with Netflix’s Leo Co-Directors Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim
Netflix
Co-directors Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim recently spoke with Script about getting on board this project, collaborating with their animation department, creating and adhering to tonal consistency, and following their North Star.
Tools & Techniques on How to Write or Adapt a Novel for Screenwriters
Have you ever wondered whether the story you’ve been itching to share with the world should be a novel or a screenplay? This bundle is for any writers, screenwriters, and novel writers alike, who have asked themselves this question.
Intentional Storytelling: A Conversation with “Black Cake” Creator and Showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar
Marissa Jo Cerar; “Black Cake”; Hulu
Marissa Jo Cerar returns to Script to talk about the adaptation process of “Black Cake,” the pros of nonlinear storytelling, and why she was the right person to adapt this story for television. And last but not least, get your pen and notepad out, as Marissa Jo shares her pitching process, soup to nuts.
From Silents to Talkies to TV, Lenore J. Coffee Did It All
Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month’s spotlight on prolific TV writer and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lenore J. Coffee.
The Joy of Figuring Out the Story with “Silo” Creator, Writer and Showrunner Graham Yost
Graham Yost; “Silo”; AppleTV+
Graham Yost talks about the adaptation process, taking creative liberties when world-building and breaking stories for the first season, building out his writers’ room, and the creative conversations he and his key crew were having to set the tone and look of the show.
Why Do We Watch Movies? Why Do We Write Scripts?
Is there one universal reason why we watch movies and TV? Here are at least five!
How “The Morning Show” Is a Box That Will Hold Anything: A Conversation with Showrunner Charlotte Stoudt
“The Morning Show,” AppleTV+
Charlotte Stoudt talks about utilizing flashbacks as a storytelling device, fleshing out secondary characters, her writing career that led her to become a showrunner, and what she hopes audiences take away from season three of “The Morning Show.”
Breaking & Entering: How to Tell Stories That Change the World – David Craig Discusses “Apocalypse Television: How ‘The Day After’ Helped End the Cold War”
David Craig
Discover the making of the most-watched TV movie ever, and perhaps the most impactful. As challenging to get on the air as it was unsettling to watch. As captivating as it was controversial. It swayed public opinion and shifted government policy. A prolific producer and an expert in social media creator culture, if anyone knows how to tell and sell world-changing stories, it’s David Craig.