Short Hand: A guide to making a short film
On Writing: with Lucy Brydon, Jess Jones & Edward Cripps
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Episode notes
In the first episode of Short Hand, we’re asking ‘what is story’? And how can you tell a brilliant one with your short film script? Our guests are filmmaker and lecturer Lucy Brydon, script editor Jess Jones and screenwriter Edward Cripps.
Topics covered include: structure, exercising restraint, creating the circumstances for subtext to breathe, how to figure out what you’re trying to say, writing authentic dialogue, receiving and implementing notes and moving on after rejection.
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SHOW NOTES & RESOURCES
- BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund
- Cracked Screen (2017, dir. Trim Lamba)
- Lucy Brydon on the development process for her debut feature ‘Body of Water’ // Little White Lies
- On Writing, Stephen King
- On Writers & Writing, Margaret Atwood
- Into the Woods, John Yorke
- An interview with Jess Jones on the John Yorke blog
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Short Hand is a BFI NETWORK & Film Hub South East production.
Produced by Nicole Davis, with support from Independent Cinema Office.
Edited by Graciela Mae Chico.