The Creative Corner
Film Resources
KeepVid–for downloading streaming video
The Internet Movie Script Database and Simply Scripts–Two sites where you can peruse screenplays in order to familiarize yourself with the screenwriting style and conventions. Rushmore, by Wes Anderson, is always a good start.
Celtx Free Screenwriting Software–This is the program that we will all use to write our Screenplays
Interesting Articles:
- Storyboarding article about J. Todd Andersonwho storyboards a lot of the Coen Brothers Movies
- An Interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox Storyboard Artist Christian DeVita
- Guillermo del Torro’s Sketchbook for Pan’s Labyrinth (with audio commentary)–Maybe inspiration for what we can include in our Director’s Notes entry in our Source Books
Instructional Videos:
- 180 Degree Shot Instructional Video
- Shot Types Instructional Video
- Rule of Thirds Instructional Video
Handouts & Packets
“Perfectionism,” “Polaroids” and “The Writing Life”
“It’s the Journey that Matters” Travel Writing Packet
Writing Resources
Vonnegut’s “8 Rules for Writing Fiction”
Kerouac’s “Rules for Spontaneous Prose”
Anne Lamott’s “First Drafts,” from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Related Posts from this site: “Some Creative Ideas,” “Writing for an Audience of One: Yourself”
Online Literary Journals
The following are some examples of online journals, magazines, and various publication formats where writes can share their ideas with others. For an interesting article on this subgenere of publishing and literature, read A.O. Scott’s “Among the Believers.” He focuses on N+1 and The Believer, which are both linked below, and the conclusions he reaches are insightful: “What [small literary magazines] provide is space – room for the exploration of hunches, experiments, blind alleys and starry-eyed hopes, by readers and writers whose small numbers can be a source of pride.”
