The recent Bob Dylan biopic provides a good example of how you can shape historical events into a […]
Category Archive: Craft
One of the challenges of writing the historical film is that the story is… well historical. This raises […]
When it comes to a fact-based film, placing the narrative into its historical context is as important as […]
The screenplay for the James Mangold-directed racing film Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66) is a great […]
Who says exposition is boring and hard to weave into a script? In The Trial of the Chicago […]
Even before its release, this fictionalised account of the real-life discovery of Richard III’s remains under a car […]
A clearly defined midpoint can help to propel your story through the long Act Two, raising the stakes […]
When is the flashback more than just a flashback? When it’s the B-story! The use of structural flashback […]
The second part of our analysis focuses on the opening to Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi’s sprawling Las […]
In this analysis, we take a closer look at how Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi’s Las Vegas-set crime […]
We’ve chosen a scene from Serpico that highlights how an alternative point-of-view and protagonist weakness can be incorporated into the […]
Voice-over is an often criticised screenwriting tool, but Milk highlights how it can be effectively employed to enhance a biopic […]
Having more than one protagonist can be problematic, but it can also offer rich opportunities to develop several […]
In the investigative biopic narrative, it is the protagonist and her development that drive the story… Even though […]
This dramatization of the investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation programme provides a good example of […]
The fictionalised account of the birth of social media platform Facebook provides an opportunity to look at how […]
The fictionalised account of Brian Clough’s turbulent and short-lived time as manager of Leeds United soccer club provides […]
This series of articles takes a film based on real-life events and analyses the opening section, following the […]