Live interactive interview with Script Consultant Pilar Alessandra

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Pilar Alessandra will be the guest tomorrow night on Filmnut at 8pm pacific time and 11pm eastern. You can instant message in questions live during the show and watch it on:

http://www.thestream.tv

If you miss the show live I will post a link in this forum the next day.

About Pilar:

Pilar jump-started her career in film as a script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis's company, ImageMovers. Her expert script analysis was also sought out by The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment and Saturday Night Live Studios, and work at Interscope Communications led her to a position as Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf's production company Radar Pictures.

Pilar has also taught screenwriting and story analysis at the UCLA Writers’ Program... In addition she has own informative podcast on sceenwriting & filmmaking.

Best,
Jeff Schubert
 
Liked her class a lot. Very helpful tips. The DVD is only $30 for those who can't make it out there. Worth every penny.

Hey 10s, did you buy the DVD or what?
 
Kyle, Yes, I got it a while back when you mentioned it, thanks for pointing it out.
 
Yet more of my $ just brisked away electronically to the land of (ama)Zon. Just ordered that DVD on amazon, thanks for the tip Kyle. ~r

kylekmd said:
Liked her class a lot. Very helpful tips. The DVD is only $30 for those who can't make it out there. Worth every penny. ...
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i don't think she gave your question the thought it deserved. maybe you should take her up on her offer to answer it via email. i for one would be interested to know what else she might have to say.
 
Watching/listening to the video now, will finish watching it later today. I suspect she will say something like even in supernatural horror there needs to be a clear goal, clear turning points, which I agree on. It is just that there seems to be something different about how s.h. plots work, I am not sure she will address that, perhaps my fault for not making the question clear. It is sort of a je ne sais quois question, not sure how to pose it. But I will be interested to see what she says, anything she has to say I am sure will be a valuable piece of info to embrace.

EDIT: My question and her reply beings at 11:20 into the video, for anybody interested. Yes I am going to take her up on her offer; I will email her today, see if she replies (I hope she does not invoice me with some expensive consultant fee!).

EDIT: I just whisked off an email to Pilar. Hoping for a reply. I did promise her I would keep the email reply private unless she gives me permission to quote her reply here with a citation and link to her website; I will have to wait and see if she even replies, let alone allows me to share her words of wisdom on my question.

linter said:
i don't think she gave your question the thought it deserved. maybe you should take her up on her offer to answer it via email. i for one would be interested to know what else she might have to say.
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Pilar replied back to my email, something I honestly was uncertain would happen given her status and the likelihood of her inbox being full after her interview on thestream.tv She sent me back a very nice email, expounding on the original question posed on the show and also in the email I sent her. Plus she is willing to read my screenplay and do a telephone consultation for what I would consider a reasonable fee, with a discount since I was so nice about the whole thing. Cool. Can't wait for her DVD to arrive in the mail so I can see what wisdom it has to offer. ~randall
 
I had best keep her email reply private unless she says otherwise, since in my email to her I did promise that her reply would be kept confidential unless she says otherwise. I want to respect that on principle, and also since I do plan to have her look over my story sequence (for $) in the near future. But the gist of her reply was that supernatural-thriller-horror still has a 25% turning point (she used The Sixth Sense as an example) midpoint and such, but that the suspense is a gradual build up rather than action-in-your-face for such plot points as with action movies, etc. ~randall

linter said:
so .... can you post her reply?
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