Just Effing Entertain Me (Coffee Break Podcasts)
Summary: Learn about the art, craft and business of screenwriting with warmth, humor and insight. In-depth interviews, varying perspectives and gems of knowledge garnered through hard-earned experience. Julie Gray and her colleagues within the entertainment industry enlighten, entertain and inform. The founder of The Script Department, Hollywood’s premier script coverage service, Julie also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition and authors the popular screenwriting blog, Just Effing Entertain Me. Julie consults privately with a wide variety of writers and teaches classes at Warner Bros., The Great American PitchFest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador. Julie lives in Los Angeles, California; her book Just Effing Entertain Me is slated for release in late 2010.
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Podcasts:
Three words: Let Actors Act. Too many action lines interrupt the flow.
Understanding the FEELING of your scene or moment is understanding the nature of subtext itself.
Julie’s hilarious and insightful class describing the world of the Hollywood script reader and the way your script(and you!) are rated. From soup to nuts, or one through ten, Julie outlines what NOT to do if your script has a shot at getting past the gatekeepers of Hollywood. If you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Seasoned reality producer and writer Rebecca Winston talks about her life “writing” for reality TV and the importance of STORY! If you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Producer Mike Perri details how to test your ideas for TV or film by first producing them as a series for the web. Get noticed and get repped.
The first image your reader experiences can set the thematic and symbolic tone for the rest of your script. If you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
It’s a fallacy that the first 10 pages are the most important. Let’s face it, Hollywood has ADD! Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Don’t let your ideas get shot down too soon; develop them more before sharing. Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Julie speaks about the concept of a writing plan as well how to draft and stick to your plan! Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Julie interviews top entertainment attorney Jesse Rosenblatt about his experience working with screenwriters, producers and production companies in all areas of entertainment legal counsel… Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
An interview with the author of There’s No Business Like Soul Business. Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Should writers follow box office trends when coming up with ideas? Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
Interview with Chris Sparling, author of Sundance sensation, BURIED. Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player click the play button below.
The good, the bad and the ugly. Please don’t let this be you. Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player, click the play button below.
Pump up your scene work with scenes that LAND well. Or if you don’t have access to the Flash player, click the play button below.
