Three quick ways to transform clichéd or dull women characters… By Linda Aronson
Here’s how… There are three sorts of adventure film that routinely include weak women characters. These characters are there because they are thought of as being merely ‘love interest’ (romantic or paternal) for a male protagonist. (poster note here… A poster for Solace. Notice it depicts 4 characters. The marketers didn’t know which to pick. […]
The Guru In The Attic, pt 1: How to Structure Films like RUN LOLA RUN by Linda Aronson
Brought to you by Charlotte Bronte and Linda Aronson The story so far… At Thornfield Hall in a part of rural England known primarily for a rare form of bovine liver fluke, non-linear and parallel narrative script expert Bertha Antoinetta Rochester is locked in a tower writing TV series and film scripts to finance her […]
Three Tricks of the Trade for Getting Ideas by Linda Aronson
I’ve been writing scripts since the late Iron Age and have judged many script competitions, so here are a few tricks of the trade that just might help you come up with some ideas. I can’t think of screenplay competitions without remembering a colleague some years ago telling me that she’d just judged a short […]
