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Category Archive: Screenwriting focus

Analysis: Shaping History into a Screen Narrative – A Complete Unknown (2024)

The recent Bob Dylan biopic provides a good example of how you can shape historical events into a […]

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Analysis: Bringing the Past into the Present

One of the challenges of writing the historical film is that the story is… well historical. This raises […]

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Analysis: Establishing Historical Context – BlackBerry (2023)

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When it comes to a fact-based film, placing the narrative into its historical context is as important as […]

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Analysis: Ford v Ferrari (2019) and the Power of ‘Action’ Words

The screenplay for the James Mangold-directed racing film Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66) is a great […]

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Analysis: Setting the Scene – First 12 Pages of The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Who says exposition is boring and hard to weave into a script? In The Trial of the Chicago […]

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Researching the Fact-based Film – Part One: An Introduction

In this series, we break down the research process to help screenwriters bring their fact-based stories to life. […]

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Researching the Fact-based Film – Part Two: Getting Started

In the first part of the series, we offered an overview of researching the fact-based screenplay. We now […]

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Researching the Fact-based Film – Part Three: Getting Organised

So far, we’ve looked at the importance of research and at identifying relevant sources. Before we get stuck […]

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Researching the Fact-based Film – Part Four: Historical Research (Pt 1)

So far in the series, we’ve outlined the basics of research and finding sources. Now, we delve into […]

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