June 3, 2021
Hi all, Following on from our series on the value of getting things produced, I thought it would be good to consider its benefit in the long-term scheme of things. As some of you will know, back in 2019 I …
May 20, 2021
Hi all, Today I’d like to explore how the creative decision to produce can have a positive affect on health and well-being. Unlike occupations in which the outcome of our labour and hard graft is instantaneous in that we receive …
May 4, 2021
(pic of actors Laura England and Tom Cove who acted/recorded my audio production last year) Hi all, Following on from last week’s post about the seminar I attended at the Soho Theatre in which the speaker admitted that scripts …
April 27, 2021
Hi all, Several years ago, I attended a morning seminar at the Soho Theatre in which a senior BBC reader presented the 10 rules of writing a good script – actually, I probably still have the notes for it …
April 7, 2021
Hi all, I posted this a couple of years ago but I still see the same old complaint from writers about scripts being overlooked by ‘gatekeepers’ searching for the next new thing. Now, while I have some sympathy and experience …
November 18, 2020
Continuing our mini-series on the best way to pitch your projects – that is images with narrated storyline OR a talking head to camera, I’d like to introduce my ‘Weighing Room’ pitch as an example of how the accompanying sensorial …
November 12, 2020
Hello! Following on from the last post in which I made a case that your short pitch is better delivered in images rather than your smiling face to camera. Not that there is anything wrong with your smiling face but …
November 4, 2020
Today we start a mini-series on pitching – and let me say from the outset, these posts are not a ‘how to pitch’ guide because you’ll find lots of advice about that on the Internet. No – these posts are …
October 7, 2020
Hi all, This week I came across a 10 min video that TV and screenwriters may find useful when developing or presenting their projects. After watching it, my first response was to save the video for future reference then print-off …
September 10, 2020
Well… …it seems like the ideas for the ‘Developing Creative Discipline’ strand just keep coming. This week, we consider what to do after the script is written – and let me be clear here, I am not talking about sending it …