For a few years now I’ve been fascinated by what doors can represent in a screenplay. They’re often viewed as portals or passageways, sometimes viewed as barriers

For this week’s Friday writings I’m dipping into the vault and pulling out one of the first scripts I wrote out of college.

This might be the last post of Eden for a little while, Mark Twain has bested me for the moment, and I’ve got plenty of other ideas to share. I’ll come back to Eden after I do a bit of a restorative cleanse with some writing that is wholly original to me.

Part two of my attempt to adapt Mark Twain to a modern setting. Nothing puts your writing skills to the test quite like working with material from an absolute master. Every time I think I’ve got something figured out his text throws me a curve ball.

For this first Friday writing I’m sharing an excerpt from Eden, an adapted screenplay based on Mark Twain’s “The Diary of Adam” and “ The Diary of Eve.” The idea is to create a modern love story between two newlyweds based on the creative genius of Mark Twain.

If you’re on this page it’s because you’re either a video producer wanting to refine their craft or you’re looking for ways to expand your business with video. For more than a decade we’ve been creating videos for companies that meet their needs and speak to their audience, but it hasn’t always been smooth sailing. On the ever changing landscape of the internet in 2022 it’s hard to keep up with what works and what doesn’t, so we’re going to take a birds eye view of general principles that will help you make videos that sell!

When telling a story no matter how long or how short, that story must have at least three parts, a beginning, a middle, and an end. Sounds simple right? But have you ever tried to actually tell a story? Where do you start? What details do you need to include? How do you get off this story ship before it sinks? In this post we’re going to examine the three act structure on an easily digestible level.

If you browse filmmaking groups on Facebook or Reddit you’ll find this question asked pretty much once a month. “What is the most important part of a film?”

Almost ever single film resource out there lists the script as the first step in making a film. They may distill that into something more creative by calling it “the story” or “the idea,” but almost every single film starts here. Or at least that’s what people want you to think.

37 Ghosts is maybe our best short film to date, and it’s great to see it doing the rounds and getting recognition from festivals.

Last week in a radio interview, Collins Abbott White sat down with Jenn Alynn-Perri to discuss filmmaking in the upstate of South Carolina as part of Reedy Reels weekly radio segment.

Film is often viewed as escapism. We go to the movies to avoid thinking of the life we have, or to imagine the life we want. Many times fantasies, super hero films, sci-fi, rom-coms or period pieces all fuel that desire for escapism. They do so by wrapping up plot points in neat bows where the hero wins, the good guys relationships are mended, and any tragedy is offset by happiness, even if it is a solemn happiness.