Want some quick writing lessons? Is six seconds short enough? Gather around the campfire, kids, and I'll tell you about a platform called "Vine" that came and went, where people would upload six-second clips that made you laugh or educated you. I had Vine for one reason. I wanted to be a screenwriter, and there was a professional who dropped screenwriting knowledge in six-second clips named Brian Koppelman. I went to film school and paid a lot of money for the same lessons Koppelman was dropping for free. They taught me a lot about story and brevity, and were the highlight of my writing education. Well, Vine tragically left this streaming earth, and it was a real bummer. I wanted to revisit those lessons, and there were times I thought I could have used the wisdom. Well, I was scrolling Reddit this morning and saw that user taylor-hamilton had compiled almost all of Koppelman's six-second advice into a PDF of info. I am publishing the first 10 here, but there are hundreds more if you check this post. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 21 January, 2021