This week’s concentration is around spectatorship studies, the implied reader / viewer, and how audience expectations can be met or … More
Tag: Theory
Critical Viewing: Annihilation (2018)
This week’s critical viewing comes in the form of Alex Garland’s excellent Annihilation. I only wish that it was showing in … More
Critical Viewing: Wind River (2017)
This week’s focus is on critical questions – those questions that are raised during a film that keep you interested … More
Critical Viewing: Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
This week’s focus is on how we can create audience identification with the protagonist of a film. In Goodbye Christopher … More
Critical Viewing Journal: The Ritual (2017)
This week, we are concentrating on the use of theme and tone within a film, with particular reference to Phil … More
Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative
The chapter ‘Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative’ in Craig Batty’s Movies that Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of … More
Screenwriting Today and Tomorrow
In Steven Price’s A History of the Screenplay, chapter 11, he discusses the ways scripts, or scenarios, or indeed outlines have … More
The Art of Screenplays
In Robin Mukherjee’s The Art of Screenplays: A Writer’s Guide, I found the chapter entitled ‘Ideas’ very useful. Making notes of small … More
Discussion on Auteur Theory
Having read the chapter Auteur Theory in Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice by Steven Maras, here are some thoughts on the subject. … More