You see, I don’t think they do any of the things you say – they don’t facilitate peer-review; they have never suggested getting paid-for readings before submitting (it makes sense but not a level playing-field), ONE success in Dominic Mitchell in all those years for something with pretty mediocre critical response, and this continued BBC obsession with hurting young women (The Fall, Happy Valley) now duplicated in Laura K which, in my view, is a very dubious project to have ever been conceived by Writersroom, as was its under the radar conception.

I don’t think enough of the Writersroom foundations come from actual writers, just like BBC’s commissioners now departing. You can see when you view the stuff they make that the basics of screenwriting, as anyone studying the craft knows – character arc, building conflict etc etc, do not apply to their productions. Of course, they get all the money they need anyway whether anyone watches or not.
And so it probably is time for a cash cull and a reboot of the system.

Examples of slasher films: Halloween, Alien, Aliens, Terminator 1 and 2, Final Destination and so on.

Some films mixed genres/subgenres. Terminator 1 and 2 are also examples of Chase films.

Is not a slasher/chase film like Terminator 1 and 2. And, because of that, relies in a RIVALRY. After the group know that someone is killing, the movie becomes a rivalry genre (like One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest) between the group and the killer.

Each attack/counter attack more harder.

Conventions:
– a lot of killings;
– people more closer from the hero + or more empathic die last;
– The hero find out things about the killer. More and more (he can find out traits about the killing, habits, backstory);
– Every killing becomes more incredible and great;
– suspense/horror scene (someone hear something, go check it out);
– The hero must kill the villain alone;

It’s a film packed full of incredible scenes, isn’t it? So many books, TV shows and movies try every-which-way to persuade the audience/reader to invest in the protagonist’s journey: his hopes, his desires, his dreams and goals. But GATTACA really, really nails it. Even if space travel is your worst nightmare, the film is a veritable masterclass in how to get an audience to buy in to what the protagonist is doing. “Do you have any idea what it took to get IN here?” Here’s the scene in all is glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-znjDGubE p.s. we love the urine sample scene at the end, too, a magic moment that feels neither contrived, nor unrealistic, when it easily could be…