Palle Schmidt

Illustrator, author and game designer

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Film School Confidential: WORST SCENE EVER

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Doing the rewrite of my screenplay for the master class at the Danish Film School has had me thinking a lot about structure and what makes a scene work. For educational purposes I have written a short scene, that DOESN’T work. There are at least 6 screenwriting mistakes in the following, let’s see if you can […]

Film School Confidential: BLADE RUNNER – PART II

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In my last post I wrote about Lars Detlefsen’s analysis of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), but I bet you still have a few questions left. Like “is Deckard a replicant?” Here’s what I already knew: Deckard is NOT a replicant. Several reasons: The original debate came from a script error. In all previous versions […]

Film School Confidential: BLADE RUNNER

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We spent the last three days looking at and analyzing my favorite movie of all time; Blade Runner. I’ve watched the film in it’s many versions at least a dozen times, watched the dvd extras, read the book, played the game. What could our fearless leader at the screenwriting education, Lars C. Detlefsen possibly tell […]

Films School Confidential: THE LAST GODFATHER

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  Monday here at film school began with a moving and personal speech from principal Poul Nesgaard, about his recent high school reunion. The man is an excellent speaker, quirky and intelligent. While he was talking, I realized that this is the last week of regular education here for me and the five other master […]

On the move: HOTEL PARKING

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“Hotel Parking”? “Oui, Monsieur”. Didn’t sound right, I had them repeat several times, when I finally made it to the check-in desk after more than an hour. That’s the part I hate about travelling: standing in line. Especially when that woman from Aalborg plowed right in front of me, with her seven passports and special […]