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Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at...
Learn how Adolescence Episode 3 (building upon structural techniques from The Wire) uses a Pattern Based Series Engine to navigate rare chan...
Learn how Adolescence grabs its audience in the first ten seconds—and what screenwriters can take from its naturalistic style, one-shot stru...
Learn how The Last of Us Season 2 resets its story engine—and what it teaches about rebuilding character dynamics, stakes, and tension in yo...
Learn how Engine and Theme function in all 3 seasons of The White Lotus and how slight changes in The White Lotus Season 3 massively affect...
Discover why Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, rejects the idea that protagonists must drive the action and how its unconventional approach grow...
Learn how to balance expert research and creative freedom in your screenwriting as we explore Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien...
Learn from The Apprentice the art of writing complex antagonists by connecting to the universal emotional needs that drive character choices
Learn from Sundance 2025 genre stand-outs Together and Didn’t Die how to explore deeply human characters and questions within an elevated ho...
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Learn from “A Real Pain” how to apply the concepts of vignettes to building character, structure and theme in your screenplay.
Learn what makes A Complete Unknown work as a biopic, and how to approach the complex relationship between truth and dramatization in the ad...
Need help getting your 3 minute pitch ready for our free online pitching event on Jan 9 with Vanessa Johnston? Wondering how to build a shor...
Learn practical techniques for transforming your writing blocks into bridges by understanding the psychology of creative resistance and how...
In this interview with Erin Brown Thomas, you’ll learn how to write an effective ensemble film through deep analysis of Erin’s Sundance film...
Learn from The Penguin how to master the art of packaging complex, character-driven stories within commercial frameworks that can sell in to...
Learn how to strategically choose and attend film festivals, build meaningful industry relationships, and advance your screenwriting career...
Learn from Erin Morganstern’s brilliant novel The Starless Sea how to harness your subconscious mind to create writing that resonates on bot...
Learn from Between The Temples how to create compelling structure in your screenplay, even when working with passive main characters or unco...
Learn from Strange Darling the difference between primary and secondary structure in screenwriting, and how to harness both to provide maxim...
This unlikely pairing of The Bear, Season 3 and Mad Max, Furiosa will teach you how to build an engine for a TV Series or Film Franchise, an...
Learn the structure and engine of Deadpool & Wolverine and how to craft compelling set pieces with both visual and emotional stakes in your...
Learn from The Boys how to develop a consistent yet evolving story engine across multiple seasons of a TV series, using theme as a guiding p...
Learn the secrets of elevated psychological horror writing in this breakdown of the structure of two related scripts: Longlegs and Hereditar...
Learn life-changing techniques to silence the inner questions and doubts in your head, and know if it’s time to quit or time to redouble you...
Through a beat-by-beat analysis of the split-screen scene of The Fall Guy, discover how to find your voice within the container of a big Hol...
Learn how Dev Patel uses expressionism within the action movie format of Monkey Man to explore class in India. Edit Snippet
“Civil War, like Apocalypse Now, doesn’t have the traditional Hollywood narrative structure. It’s built more like a zombie road trip into th...
Learn the 7 forms of conflicts and how connecting to your character’s internal antagonist can provide a bedrock to your structure and the ke...
Discover how Yórgos Lánthimos' Poor Things uses a simple theme to navigate profound questions about identity, the past, and the search for o...
Learn screenwriting tips from Sundance films Nocturnes, Every Little Thing, Black Box Diaries, Eno, Thelma, Kidnapping, Inc, and lectures fr...
Jacob Krueger and Christian Lybrook discuss some of the most exciting independent movies premiering at Sundance and what screenwriters can l...
Learn how Past Lives both honors and subverts the genre elements implied by its premise, and how to apply those concepts to your own writing...
How can the new Nicholas Cage movie be a hit with the critics but leave audiences cold? Three words: Passive Main Character.
Learn 5 simple steps to set New Year’s Resolutions for your writing that actually stick!
Learn pitching from Jacob Krueger and top JKS faculty members. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour...
Learn the secrets of a winning pitch for contests and festivals, and prepare your pitch for our upcoming Pitch Festivus! event.
Learn how Emerald Fennell mashes up genre and controls tone in Saltburn.
Learn how to find your “take” and balance fiction and truth when adapting a true story or book from this script analysis of Killers of the F...
The Inner Censor helps build writer's blocK –here’s how to turn it off
Learn about the two forms of writer’s block and how to combat them in your writing career.
Learn mirrors and foils, an intuitive approach to world building, structure, character and theme in Jake’s script analysis of Talk to Me.
Learn the vital importance of your screenplay’s first 10 pages, and what it takes to make them successful on both a commercial and creative...
Learn the vital importance of your screenplay’s first 10 pages, and what it takes to make them successful on both a commercial and creative...
Learn to escape the “refrigerator” of doubt and negativity that gets in the way of your screenwriting through Jake’s analysis of The Bear, S...
Learn from Barbie and Oppenheimer the vital role of theme in writing a screenplay adaptation.
Learn how to write flashbacks that work and how to handle exposition in your screenplay from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3
Jake compares the famous “adventure book” scene from Pixar’s Up! and the photo-album scene from Shrinking to show you how to turn a familiar...
Learn from Shrinking about therapeutic and anti-therapeutic writing structures, the challenges of writing therapy scenes, and the links betw...
Learn an intuitive approach to character building through A Man Called Otto, and how to write characters more truthfully by connecting to yo...
Jake does a deep, line by line analysis of the opening sequence of Everything Everywhere All at Once to help you understand how to write a g...