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Tag Archives: Industry
[THREE CENTS] Responsibility to Your Audience
As writers, most of us work to create scripts with compelling stories, three-dimensional characters, and authentic-sounding dialogue. But what else should be on our checklist? After all, screenplays – and the resulting movies, television, and web content – aren’t designed … Continue reading
Posted in IN THE TRENCHES, Industry, THREE CENTS
Tagged Advice, Audience, Industry, Screenwriter, Screenwriting, Writer, Writing
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[IN THE TRENCHES] Two Heads
Collaboration. Not an easy thing to accomplish effectively, but the entire entertainment business is built around the concept, so it’s better to embrace the notion than to fight it. Seriously, you can’t fight it. I’ve tried. Sure, some other art … Continue reading
Posted in IN THE TRENCHES, Industry
Tagged Advice, collaboration, Hereth, Industry, James Hereth, partnership agreements, Rhonda Smiley, Screenwriting, Writer, Writing, writing partners
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[IN THE TRENCHES] Do You Really Want to do This?
Everybody and their cousin has an idea for a movie or television show. Some of them have a lot (of ideas, that is, not cousins). Well, sure they do, ideas are the easy part (a dime a dozen used to … Continue reading
Posted in IN THE TRENCHES, Industry
Tagged Advice, Industry, James Hereth, Screenwriter, Screenwriting, Writing
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[SPOTLIGHT] Kuu Kuu Harajuku
Let me get this out of the way right at the top. I’ve never met Gwen Stefani. Nevertheless, Rhonda Smiley and I have been writing on her show for a while now, and it premieres in the U.S. on Nickelodeon … Continue reading
Posted in Industry, SPOTLIGHT
Tagged Animation, Gwen Stefani, Industry, James Hereth, Kids Show, Kuu Kuu Harajuku, LoliRock, Nickelodeon, Rhonda Smiley, Screenwriting
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[IN THE TRENCHES] Shut Up Already and Do Something
I was watching “Stranger Things” last week, when I heard the opening notes to New Order’s “Elegia” trickle in behind the mourning scene in “The Acrobat and the Flea” episode (I won’t elaborate any more on that, because, you know… … Continue reading
Posted in Biographical, IN THE TRENCHES, Industry, NYU
Tagged DIY, Film School, Hereth, Industry, New Order, NYU, Screenwriter, Stranger Things, Writing
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[IN THE TRENCHES] Industry Peers: Mortal Enemies?
Back in my first few days at NYU, all of us freshman Film & Television majors naturally gravitated toward other like-minded students, forming the inevitable cliques. This was great for hanging out, making the most of a single believable fake … Continue reading
Posted in Biographical, IN THE TRENCHES, Industry, NYU
Tagged Film School, Hereth, Industry, NYU, Screenwriter, Somerset Maugham, Writing
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