{"id":232,"date":"2009-03-27T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scriptsurgeon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2009-03-27T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T12:51:44","slug":"how-to-write-a-movie-according-to-frank-cottrell-boyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/how-to-write-a-movie-according-to-frank-cottrell-boyce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write a movie according to Frank Cottrell Boyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a much longer, very theoretical blog post about the very fundamentals of storytelling, which won&#8217;t be ready for a few days, so here&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s words of wisdom instead to keep you going. This was in The Guardian in June of last year, and I found it quite by accident while looking for something else.<\/p>\n<p>Boyce rejects a lot of conventional wisdom, but I think it&#8217;s useful to have a suite of tools available, rather than a one-size-fits-all, guaranteed-never-to-fail template. Flatly contradictory pieces of advice can each be appropriate in different situations.<\/p>\n<p>Take it away, Frank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2008\/jun\/30\/news.culture1\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2008\/jun\/30\/news.culture1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If you want me or one of the other\u00a0Script Surgeons\u00a0to read your script and send you a detailed report on what works and what doesn&#8217;t then we are currently offering this service for just \u00a350 with a guaranteed seven-day turnaround.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptsurgeon.co.uk\/submit.html\"><strong>Send your script in today.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a much longer, very theoretical blog post about the very fundamentals of storytelling, which won&#8217;t be ready for a few days, so here&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s words of wisdom instead. This was in The Guardian in June of last year, and I found it quite be accident while looking for something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[47,464],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-screenwriting","tag-frank-cottrell-boyce","tag-screenwriting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JY5l-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}