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Where Did The Romcom Go? by Tamzin Rafn

Tamzin Rafn — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:45:34 +0000

Where Did The Romcom Go? I have a question. Where did the romcom go, please? Has anyone seen it of late because I seek and ye does not find? Let’s ...

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Screenwriters and The Flash of Genius

Tamzin Rafn — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:12:06 +0000

Screenwriters and The Flash of Genius The other day I awoke having had the most glorious film idea I felt I had ever had. IN MY SLEEP. I dreamt it. ...

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Something For Nothing – Writing Spec Scripts

Tamzin Rafn — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:33:24 +0000

Something For Nothing – Writing Spec Scripts There’s a terrific viral that periodically does the rounds where a restaurateur advertises on Craigslist for a solo musician to play in his ...

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In Script Development Nobody Knows Anything

Tamzin Rafn — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:45:53 +0000

Nobody Knows Anything When I worked in screenplay development, I spent an awful lot of time befuddled because William Goldman had really nailed it when he said: “nobody knows anything”. Nobody ...

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The Agony of Screenwriting Success

Tamzin Rafn — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:45:07 +0000

Screenwriting Success Hurts Some years ago I wrote a film that eventually I called ALBATROSS and subsequently it has been my own private albatross. I was incredibly fortunate. A series of ...

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The Hierarchy of an Executive’s Script Pile

Tamzin Rafn — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:26:56 +0000

A couple of months ago I had a friend round for dinner who just so happens to be the Head of Development at one of the best TV companies around. In ...

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The Top 8 Crowdfunding Pitch Movies on Indiegogo

Miranda Fleming — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:27:58 +0000

The crowdfunding pitch film is the campaign’s secret weapon. The pitch film sits at the forefront of your ask for the crowd to fund you. The pitch film literally should ...

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The Film Producer Salary & A Pocket Full of Dollars

Miranda Fleming — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:30:23 +0000

Let’s be blunt about it: the financial outlook isn’t great for Film Producers at the moment. A Film Producer Salary is firmly not what it once was… I remember the ...

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12 Things Screenwriters Can Learn from Musicals

Tom Williams — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:20:35 +0000

12 Things Screenwriters Can Learn from Musicals I recently ventured from my comfortable world of screenwriting into completely new territory. No, I’m not acting– I’m working on a stage musical. The process ...

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Cutting Out the Middle Man in Film Distribution

Miranda Fleming — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:09:40 +0000

The Berlin International Film Festival was distinctly different this year. Sure, there was the typical melee of execs taking pictures around remnants of the Berlin Wall. And yes, as per ...

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The Smell of Fear in LA

Tamzin Rafn — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:36:33 +0000

I’ve spent the week in LA, (City of Angels & Devils) As I have previously mentioned, many times, I love LA and this time was no exception. I ate dinner ...

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9 Observations about Aaron Sorkin’s THE NEWSROOM

Tom Williams — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:50:22 +0000

THE NEWSROOM This post started as a tweet, developed into a Facebook status and is now finding full expression as a blog post. recently I finished, in a double-bill, The ...

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My Pain At Being “Replaced” as a Screenwriter

Tamzin Rafn — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:12:10 +0000

Being “Replaced” A couple of years ago, I became that person: a replaced screenwriter. It was a screenplay I dearly loved and had put my heart and soul into and, ...

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Swerving Development Hell in the New Dawn of Crowdfunding

Miranda Fleming — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:49:31 +0000

Welcome and hello to the thousands of you who visit the IS website every week. By way of an introduction, I’m Miranda Fleming, and I’m thrilled to be starting this ...

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31 Screenwriting Books You MUST Own

Tom Williams — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:47:12 +0000

When I say “screenwriting books you MUST own”, I’ll be honest: the MUST is for effect. You don’t have to do anything, particularly buying screenwriting books in such volume that ...

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10 Signs That You, My Friend, Are A Writer…

Tamzin Rafn — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:37:08 +0000

Do These Signs Match Your Habits? Someone tells a tragic family story that has taken them years to open up about and you unwittingly shout “DIBS ON THAT” the second ...

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Read It And Weep

Tamzin Rafn — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:50:47 +0000

“Will you read my script for me?” Gah. Five words to strike fear into the heart of anyone with eyes. As a former Development Exec, it’s something I hear an ...

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Five Screenwriting Rules You Can Break and Five You Can’t

Tom Williams — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:48:07 +0000

Even the notion of screenwriting rules gets some people into a serious tizz, and it’s this controversial topic I want to explore this week. I’ve spent the last three weeks ...

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Why Women Screenwriters should Stop Moaning and Just WIN

Tamzin Rafn — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:52:15 +0000

All Screenwriters LOVE Moaning Because there’s been quite a lot in the press lately about the plight (or otherwise) of women screenwriters, I’ve been thinking a bit lately about whether ...

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My Search for a Screenwriting Truth

Tom Williams — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:24:48 +0000

In Screenwriting, the truth matters… Today we’re going to talk about The Truth. Not this sort of truth. Or this. Or even this. We’re going to talk about the kind ...

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What I’ve Learnt about Screenwriting: Part I, The Idea

Tom Williams — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:37:31 +0000

What I’ve Learnt about Screenwriting: Part 1, The Idea So I’ve been doing this for a while now, and for some reason I feel a powerful, hubristic, intimations-of-mortality urge to ...

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To Screenwrite Right, Write What You Know

Tamzin Rafn — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:43:50 +0000

Write What You Know or Just Say No! (and other rhymes) I’m going to give you procrastinating scribblers a little bit of advice today. Yes me, who gets up at the ...

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Screenwriting & The Fine Art of Procrasturbating

Tamzin Rafn — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:55:58 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of those books that are a collection of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters where they tell you, with grating self-deprecation and lashings and lashings ...

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Seething With Screenwriting Envy!

Tamzin Rafn — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:01:09 +0000

Screenwriting Envy “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure”. Guess who said that? You never will. It was Bill Cosby! I ...

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In Screenwriting, Hope Springs Eternal

Tamzin Rafn — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:45:50 +0000

The Rafn Column Part III Screenwriting – Hope Springs Eternal When I worked as a Development Executive, the most terrifying thing I ever had to do was fly to LA ...

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10 Ways To Irritate a Development Executive

Tamzin Rafn — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:02:25 +0000

The Rafn Column Part II 10 Ways to Irritate a Development Executive When I finally made the transition from being a Development Executive to becoming a writer, I believed that ...

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The Rafn Column Part I: Explaining the Obvious

Tamzin Rafn — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:04:32 +0000

The script, the script, the script… I have always had a love affair with scripts. I love, love, love them. Love them warm coming off the printer, love the font ...

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