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100 Screenplay Ideas In 10 Seconds With AI

Put yourself in a studio executive's shoes. Why you would you sift through 1000 bad ideas when you could commission the ones you could design to hit the target audience the hardest? What's the point of screenwriters anymore, exactly? They are human editors to AI-generated material, recruited for their expertise.

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The Days Of Human Script Readers And Backlogged Writing Rooms Are Over

No machine will ever be able to replace human artistic perception. But Anthropic's new iteration of Claude 3 "Opus" can analyse and review screenplays with staggering levels of insight in a matter of seconds. Anthropic claim: "[Claude 3 Opus] exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks, leading

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AI-Generated Stories And Screenplays From GPT-4 Prompts

Could we theoretically generate 2000 story treatments or production screenplays in 30mins from basic loglines? AI is to knowledge work what the plough was to farming: a quantum leap in productivity. Let's take ten prompts, enter them differently, and see what GPT4 provides back. Our Source Material: The Idea ThesaurusIn

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The Editable "His Girl Friday" Screenplay in Final Draft, Fade In Pro, Fountain, and PDF Format

What's not to love about the legendary screwball caper from 1940? If you're new to His Girl Friday, you're in for a treat. It's one of the original "rapid-fire repartee" comedies which influenced Tarantino, Sorkin, and many others. The conversation is so rapid, it was declared the fastest in the

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The Black List's Back, And It's Worse Than Ever

Hollywood has a lot of lists. The Black List. The Blood List. The Brown List. The Brit List. The Next List. Every December, the results of a survey among execs is "published" as the Black List. It's definitely not being gamed as a circle jerk of votes-for-favours, it's definitely not

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Solving Velikovsky's Open Screenwriting Problems

In 2016, then-doctoral candidate Joe Velikovsky published his Ph.D thesis "Twenty-Four Open Problems In The Movie Screenwriting Domain", which was based on David Hilbert's 23 Mathematical Problems from 1900. An expanded version of the original idea appears on his website with forty-three items. Joe's work is extraordinary, in an

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The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage

We all know it when we see it. Audiences are experts in sensing – and ignoring - the intentions of writers and filmmakers when they attempt to surreptitiously program their perception of reality. Stalin became fascinated with it and made the industrial capture of the art form a top political priority.

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Why Can't Screenwriting Work Like Stage & Music Publishing?

Composers who write sheet music publish it as an original literary work to a library catalogue, and record labels purchase the rights to make a sound recording of it in the form of up-front payment and/or royalties. Is there any reason producers shouldn't operate as record labels, and license

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Fumigating The Radiation Poisoning Of Critical Theory From Screenwriting

Art is not about activism; drama is not about deconstruction; stories are not sociology; plots are not about propaganda or "power dynamics"; arcs are not "analysis"; ideas are not ideology; teleology is not "theory"; juxtaposition is not about "justice"; characters are not low-resolution caricatures; nature is not about "narratives"; writing

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Story Plot Structures: How Plays, Games, And Movies (Don't) Work

A good story tells itself. If you are finding yourself stuck and attempting to force the events of a story, your story sucks. Or, you suck at telling stories. Stories with true narrative force are unstoppable. 99.9% of stories created today - even through the 36 situations - are

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Story Catalysts: Accelerators, Instigators, Initiators, Inciters

You've got that dramatic arc you want to play out in the scene, but how do you start it? What kicks off or provokes the action? You need a catalyst or provocation which jumps starts a context for your plot point to exist within. In chemistry, catalysis is the process

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Deadly Sins of Screenwriting

Art has month purposes, but its sacred one is to reveal truth. Greek mythology and the Bible all speak in stories. Aristotle uses the same word as St Paul to describe a crucial thing which underpins everything that makes us human and drives art: Hamartia. In The Poetics, Hamartia is

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Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life

Tucked away in Leigh Michaels' (LeAnn Lemberger's) excellent writers' guide, "On Writing Romance" (2007), is a fascinating snippet about male/female relations which wouldn't be amiss in the self-help section of your local bookstore. The concept of us being two different "species" is now so overplayed it's become a trope,

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Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Screenwriting is a lot like the guitar: easy to pick up, but incredibly hard to master. Anyone can play a campfire version, but becoming Steve Vai takes a mystical, quasi-Herculean combination of raw talent, practice, and discipline. Writing for the screen, in theory, is simple: 1 page is 1 minute,

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Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Drama is not for the shallow, or the fainthearted. A good play or movie should be like a good meal: it leaves you fulfilled. Feelgood “drama” without any chaos is like McDonalds: it temporarily gratifies, but leaves you feeling empty. Art should set your soul on fire, not anesthetize you

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Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Variety finally gets it.In academic circles, two of the most quoted scholars when discussing film are Harold Vogel, and Ian MacDonald. The former wrote “Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis”, which establishes many of the accepted statistics of the field, such as there been an estimated

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ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON is a data model and object notation/interchange syntax for screenplays. In essence, it is “screenplays for computers”. Word processors help humans to author scripts.PDFs help humans to publish and read scripts.ScreenJSON helps computer systems understand and analyze scripts.For the impatient, the documentation is here: https:

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Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from

It’s a cruel irony, Aaron Sorkin cannibalised his view on artistic “recycling” from T.S Eliot’s brutal reflection of creative realpolitick: “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”The great scientist, Issac Newton, simply acknowledged his inspirations: “If I have seen further it

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If Shakespeare’s plays were Netflix loglines

ComediesAll’s Well That Ends WellA lovesick, unwanted wife fakes her own death and manipulates events to re-gain her wayward husband.As You Like ItA niece is banished from her uncle’s court and sets out on a journey with friends to a forest, where they all eventually marry and