The last three days of this week at Film School we read our treatments aloud and got critique from head of the screenwriting education, Lars Detlefsen. When we were up in that room before the summer, I felt like I took a beating. But today, a fellow student took a beating that reminded me of Bane kicking Batman’s butt […]
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Working Methods: WALL-TO-WALL MEETINGS
I don’t know about you, but I rarely get anything done if I only have a few hours of work time. I need time to really dig in. So having a meeting in town during the day is the a surefire way for me to NOT get anything done. My recommendation: bunch all meetings together […]
Work in progress: EATING AN ELEPHANT – PART II
Eating an Elephant, part II This is a meticulous description of how I work on a graphic novel. You can read the first part of three here. After the script is done, I start breaking down the pages. I do scribbles along the way, letting images come to my mind as I go through the script. […]
Work in progress: EATING AN ELEPHANT – PART I
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. There are no shortcuts to writing and drawing a graphic novel. And believe me, I’ve looked everywhere! I tend to let stories simmer for a long time, adding elements as I come across things that might fit in. When it comes to writing the script, I […]
Work in progress: STILETTO
People have asked me what a comics script looks like. Well, here’s a sample of how I do it: As you can see, I pretty much write it like a movie script. Since I’m “directing” myself, there’s no need to include descriptions of each frame. I do the breakdowns later. Sometimes I edit a bit in […]