Empathy – the key to drawing the audience into your story
There is no denying that we human beings are social creatures. Empathy is important for us to be social, so that we can understand how...
Lessons learned about story-telling as a management consultant
Ever since, I can remember I have been fascinated, not only by great stories, but by how they have been told such that they connected...
Recharge creativity and passion for films by shooting short films
Damien Chazelle, a talented young filmmaker, who made a big splash with the movie Whiplash last year, has followed it up with the...
Story with emotional punch
Often movie scripts get rejected due to lack of the necessary "emotional punch." A story without strong emotions, is not a story brought...
Aaron Sorkin on Revealing Character
Studying Aaron Sorkin's (Steve Jobs, Newsroom, The Social Network, West Wing, A few good men, The American President) scripts and...
Where to start when developing a story?
You can start generating a story from anything. I’ve started scripts from characters, plot points, and endings, as well as geographical...
On Script Writing - Cut out all superfluous dialogues
“Dialogue which does not move the story along, or add to the mood of the story, or have an easily definable reason for being there at all...
Stories that aim for the heart and head to reach the soul
Before Cal Fussman interviewed Mikail Gorbachev for Esquire magazine he was told that he only had 10 minutes with the one time Soviet...
