Posts by Scott Milder

Music Video Showcase: ‘Cone of Shame’ by Faith No More
The video uses the structure of the song—a long, tension filled intro that owes as much to Morricone and Leonard Cohen as it does to Metallica—that suddenly lunges headlong into a thrash-metal buzz-saw to create some very real suspense and a stunning payoff.
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In the Room: Tips for Pitching Your Screenplay
A good starting place is to develop a logline, your one-sentence summary of the idea. This is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds.
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Your First Hollywood Script Meeting: Take the Bottled Water
If you’re still rocking a flip phone, just stick to the magazines. Because a flip phone is the mark of shame and sadness.
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Top 5 Amateur Screenwriting Mistakes
Write the damn thing as if it were your great American novel.
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Find Your Team
The point here isn’t to talk about how awesome we are, but to stress how we have come to value a collaborative vision built around our own dark obsessions.
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The Accidental Filmmaker
I’m still a writer first, and always will be. But filmmaking gave me a way to do it in the company of others.
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Why Filmmakers Should Learn to Love the Theater
Good theater-trained actors tend to work harder. This isn’t always true, except, yeah, it’s pretty much true.
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Distribution Isn’t Always What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Getting distribution for your film can mean a lot of things. And for true indie filmmakers, often enough, what it means is not good.
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