Recent content by Brandonmonahan

Its always good to have faith that the audience will put 2 and 2 together. You dont need to explain absolutely everything, just give them the tools to piece it all together or follow another character figuring it out.

If it was me I would lead the audience to believe that she is in a relationship with a mob boss or something so they wont question why she is being investigated yet they wont assume she herself is full criminal.

Haha this is pretty damn funny. The only thing that jumps out is this part: ext. black in. Int. black out. I would suggest simply putting "Fade to black" or "cut to black", there is no need to add a "black out".

Lots of reasons. The main reason Id say is focus. The lens of a camera focuses on the star and blurs the background making everything appear smaller. The human eye takes a lot more into account than a camera lens. Sometimes similar sized actors are chosen to make the star appear taller, this is...

Congrats to you and FilmAutre :P mistakes make a career. I hope you guys's careers take off now and make great movies

This will happen to everyone in the film industry at some point. It's a pain in the ass but just think, everything else you work on will be a walk in the park compared to this. When Me and the rest of the crew ask people to work for free we pay for as much food and drinks as we can. Bearing in...

Okay so I don't want to waste space in my screenplay so rather than do each part as a seperate scene I wanted to write it something like this. Basically it keeps just cutting to a different crowd each time as quickly as possible. any advice is appreciated, formatting is off btw cos its copied...

If you've ever read the book "Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!" by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, there's a great chapter in it called "Why every Hollywood studio movie sucks donkey balls" and it explains clearly exactly...

This has happened to me so many times. Or I have written something almost identical to a movie I've never seen nor heard about. I was helping my twin brother write a screenplay for his thesis so I gave him the treatment for a comedy movie I had written and we worked from there. What we ended up...

The budget is only as good as the writer , director and, to a lesser extent; the cast. Take a look at the movie Crash(amazing movie). It was made for $6million-ish but most of that went on the well-known cast. It went on to win an oscar the year after it's release. The movie is a brilliant...

I assume he means screenplay competitions judging by the original post. I've never entered a screenplay competition myself so I have no idea how easy/hard it is to be noticed. Getting noticed at a film festival with a short, I assume is a lot easier because the product is "finished".

So the audience sees your characters but hears the characters from the program?

This may have been answered somewhere here before but I thought I'd post to get a fresh response. I have a scene written where a bunch of students in the 60's kidnap a girl from a college and then it cuts to a bunch of students speeding down a highway in a car to get her back. This scene is a...

Might seem cynical but every premise is outdated at this stage. Every screenwriter with movies to their name will tell you that producers want "the same thing, only different". At this stage most "new" premises are just a mix of multiple premises all squashed together into a familiar yet...

Thanks for the advice. Any suggestions on how I could show a series of events, in a short space of time and have viewers understand what's happening?