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How Coverage Can be a Screenwriter’s Best Friend

Getting feedback from a stranger on your screenplay can be a challenging experience for any writer. Is screenplay coverage friend or foe? Well, that depends on your attitude towards it. You — the screenwriter receiving the coverage — can decide…

wescreenplayMarch 23, 2020

Contests Filmmaking Screenwriting

7 Short Films That Every Screenwriter Should Watch

If you're working on a short script for the WeScreenplay Short Screenplay Competition (which offers free feedback included for every submission, and has a jury of Oscar-nominated filmmakers), we've got some inspiration for you. Here are seven incredible short films…

wescreenplayMarch 19, 2020

Screenwriting

10 Most Desirable Things Script Readers Want in a Spec Script

If you want to move up in Hollywood as a screenwriter, you're going to need to focus on pleasing one single person — the script reader. They are the gatekeepers of studios, production companies, agencies, management companies, and even fellowships,…

Michael VanjuMarch 18, 2020

Screenwriting

5 Pieces of Screenwriting Advice from Marvel Screenwriter Zak Penn

What screenwriting advice can Marvel Cinematic Universe screenwriter Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers) offer beginning screenwriters? Here we turn to the Viceland video Screenwriting Advice from Zak Penn: VICE GUIDE TO FILM where Penn offers some excellent…

Michael VanjuMarch 11, 2020

Contests

Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Finalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. From nearly 1,000 entries, we are thrilled to advance…

wescreenplayMarch 4, 2020

Contests

Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Semifinalists

Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received. As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the…

wescreenplayFebruary 12, 2020

Screenwriting

The Two Most Important Elements in a TV Show

There are an almost unbelievable number of things that go into developing a television pilot — everything from the premise of the story to the structure of the script, the transitions between scenes, the dialogue characters say, sluglines, descriptions, act…

Britton PerelmanFebruary 6, 2020

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The Marketing Blueprint

The marketing blueprint is a 1-2 page section in additional to your feedback on your project that is custom tailored to help you achieve your goal for writing the script. The goal of the blueprint is to shine a light…

wescreenplayJanuary 30, 2020

Coverage

An Update to Our Feedback Options

Since we launched in 2014, WeScreenplay has provided the industry’s best quality, fastest, and most affordable notes on screenplays. We offer pages of detailed notes on your work in just 72 hours, and we do it at a price that…

wescreenplayJanuary 30, 2020

Coverage Screenwriting

How to Hook Your Audience from Page One

I personally think there are a plethora of amazing movies and TV shows out there. Yes, I said plethora and yes, I know what it means to have a plethora. *That’s a ¡Three Amigos! reference, and if you haven’t seen…

Justin Trevor WintersJanuary 28, 2020