Impact50

Write at the end by Ryan Harris

As the asteroid dust begins to settle, we can now look back at the impact50 competition that left a lot of us with a real emotional impact, some good some bad. For me personally the competition represented another lifeline after years of trial and error & error & error… With the impending feeling that maybe …

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A Look In The Spec Pile: @Create50, THE IMPACT

Following on from Wednesday’s brilliant post by @ShoreScripts on spec screenwriting clichés, here’s a look inside in the Create50 “lock-in” for LondonSWF’s second crowd-sourced feature film, THE IMPACT. Basically, Team LSF – and some very knowledgeable guests – locked themselves inside Ealing Studios during bank holiday weekend. Over the course of the two days, we re-read …

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Judging the Impact 50 Script Competition – or a little light reading over the weekend.

Last weekend I read nearly 300 scripts in two days and I learned… …Just how important the concept is. …Over and over again my notes were “needs tightening or cut dialogue” …The need to get into the story fast. Surprising how I could get bored even after one page. It was a lovely day, one …

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Top Tips

We asked some of the most active site members what were the most common notes they had seen, whether in feedback on others’ work or their own. These are collated and posted here as a handy reference guide and provide an invaluable tool to help you craft strong scripts. It’s interesting to note that these …

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Building a Jigsaw by Dee Chilton

Like me, you are no doubt on tenterhooks waiting the find out if your script is one of the selections for Create50 ‘The Impact’ filmmaking phase – and I purposely do not phrase that as a ‘winner’ or ‘loser’. To me, we are all winners because we submitted to the process, we created amazing stories, …

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