by BlueCat | Jul 24, 2014 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Picking The Title of Your ScriptWhy are you reading this? Most likely because you don’t like what you’re calling your screenplay. What’s it called? Do you have a title or a working title? A working title is a title that sucks that you put on the file of your script,...
by BlueCat | Jun 18, 2013 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog, Uncategorized
7 Steps to Writing Your Screenplay1. Choosing a StoryMost professional writers I know have a surplus of ideas. Because of this they tend to think little of them. But choosing a good concept is, in many ways, the most important step of all, assuming you follow through...
by BlueCat | May 13, 2013 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
I haven’t read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby since I was in the ninth grade, twenty years ago now, but I do remember it being a quick read; at fifty thousand words, an average reader can go cover to cover in little more than four hours. Watching the most...
by BlueCat | May 10, 2013 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
Theater has dialogue, novels have the internal lives of characters, and movies have dynamic visuals. There is, of course, overlap. Many films are driven by dialogue, as are many novels, and the visuals in a Robert Wilson operetta are more important than mere words....
by BlueCat | May 9, 2013 | Articles, The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog
I don’t usually like to go to movies on their opening weekend—crowds of more than twenty tend to make me nervous—but it can occasionally be fun to see a big movie in a packed house. You get caught up in the atmosphere of the whole affair and have a better time than...
by BlueCat | Nov 13, 2012 | Articles
Are you preparing to send in your screenplay to the BlueCat Screenplay Competition before the deadline? What can you do before you enter to increase your chances of advancing, placing and perhaps winning BlueCat?The first thing you should know is BlueCat is very...
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