Screen Writing

Screenwriting is a technical process that requires a lot of formatting and knowledge of the format---but before the format can be implemented, an idea needs to form first. The easiest way to start...

If you're a kid with a lot of imagination, a love of movies and an ability to tell good stories, you don't have to be an adult or move to Hollywood to start writing screenplays of your own. Thanks...

Comedy movies are one of the oldest film genres, whose roots go back to the dawn of movies. Early comedy movies featured the slapstick humor of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers...

Writing a thesis, grocery list and writing in a journal is totally different than creative writing. For many, creative writing is much more difficult and time consuming that writing what is fact...

Bollywood is the collective term used to describe the film industry in India. While most Bollywood movies are still made in the Hindi native language, the trend of English-language movies is on...

Become a movie expert by watching a lot of movies and going to film school in order to take classes on editing, acting or directing. Gain an encyclopedia-like knowledge of different movies and...

Most actors would like to have roles in movies, particularly blockbuster films. With the competitive nature of the acting world, it can be a challenge just to get an audition for a movie.

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of movies based on comic books. Though it wasn't the first movie in the genre, when Bryan Singer's "X-Men" was a a surprising...

If you want to cut your chops as a screenwriter, writing an action movie may be the way to go. You don't need a lot of backstory or characters, you don't need to look for any theme more basic than...

There is no fixed definition for an exploitation movie. Movies about girl gangs, drug cults, slasher killers and even Spaghetti Westerns have been lumped into the category. One thing they have in...

The martial arts have moved from late night cable and obscure video rentals to mainstream media. Kung Fu movies spawned a number of martial arts subgenres with fantastic feats and magical...

Teen horror movies are meant to park butts in seats and sell popcorn. Girls should scream and want to hug their boyfriends. You should be able to make out and miss half the movie and not miss...

Some of the most popular movies released every year are children’s movies. Whether it is an animated comedy like "Shrek" or "Monster House" or a live action movie like the "Spiderwick...

Just like the story, Alice In Wonderland, fantasy helps an audience escape "through the looking glass" into an alternate reality where they are likely to learn an objective lesson about their own...