As a regular contributor to Culture Hacker, I often think about how technology is affecting storytelling. How are audiences receiving their entertainment? How are storytellers delivering entertainment? And how can we as screenwriters get involved with the innovation?
One possible avenue screenwriters might be able to pave is the cross-media screenplay.
In other words, a screenplay that exists across the social media platforms audiences use everyday, including social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and yes, even Myspace, social bookmarking sites such as digg, reddit, and delicious, and on traditional websites.
So …

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It’s commonly accepted and practiced to express a theme throughout your screenplay. Some call it the mind if the screenplay and some call it a well which everything else in the story springs from, but no matter what you call it, it’s one of the most important aspects I writing … by far!
Let’s look beyond the commonly practices and accepted and try something new.
In my opinion, …

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What ever you do, just get involved with others – as screenwriters, it’s …