TSC resurrection?????

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siraj

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So about 6 months ago a member named Eximious formed TSC (The Screenplay Club) where Eximious planned to post a films title once a week for anyone who was interested to discuss the script. What made the story succeed/fail, characters interesting/uninteresting etc. Basically, it lasted two films: Shawshank Redemption and The Princess Bride.

If i, or anyone else, started this again, would any of you be interested?

it doesn't matter if we read or watch. reading would be better only as an individual exercise but when discussing, i think both are fine. as long as we help each other point out the, or lack of, plot points, inciting incidents, key incidents, mid points, character arc, what is it about the protagonist that makes he/she/it appealing to the audience, character flaws, antagonists, which character fills which archetype and EVERYTHING ELSE as there are many more.

the reason i want to do this is because there are films where i can't always pick out some of the things listed above. SO, anyone????????? I'm looking right at you Randal :D

Siraj
 
This would be awesome.
I'd take part in this.
Especially since I'm new to writing. I could do with all the knowledge.
 
Depending on the film title / genre I might jump in. Likely would watch the film rather than read the script, for now, because I am so busy with an online UCLA screenwriting course (Dialogue course taught by Karl Iglesias) complete with weekly writing assignments and weekly script reading assignments. But I do like analyzing films for structure, if the films interest me; if the titles do not interest me, i might jump in on the discussion in other ways.
 
Sorry I've been so reclusive as of late. I'm pretty busy with work and haven't had much time to visit the forums lately.

The Screenplay Club was a lot of fun. I think one of the challenges was recruiting enough interested people to contribute analysis and insight. After all, it takes a couple of hours to read a script and then maybe a couple more to really think about it. But, reading a lot of scripts (especially good ones) is probably the best and most direct way of improving your own writing.

But heck, I'd be willing to give it another shot. Let me do some thinking over the next week or so and mull over some ideas.
 
I also use Google docs extensively; easy to collaborate among many people on a document such as a screenplay / story analysis. I do all my story ideas and sequencing and beat sheets and treatments now in google docs, easy to organize docs there when working between a laptop and PC, and if optionally collaborating.

raymondluo said:
Sounds like a great facebook idea to me
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