Creativity blocked?

Ideas just not happening? Visit this site and get your imagination flowing again. Here you'll find the full length scripts from thousands of popular movies, free for you to read and be inspired. See firsthand how successful films are created!

The Internet Movie Script Database

Free your mind with "FreeMind!"

All digital film students can benefit from FreeMind, the free and open source software for organizing thoughts and ideas. Classes use it to create Production Plans for movies, but it can be used for anything in need of "mapping out." :-) Check out the link below to learn more about FreeMind!

FreeMindMapping Software

T.V. Pilot Programming!

It's Pilot Season!
During the first four months of the year, U.S. television studios and production companies immerse themselves in the annual rite of spring known as "pilot season." But what exactly IS pilot season? Check out the link below and see what the Museum of Broadcast Communications has to say about this exciting time of year.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications: Pilot Season

Fabulous Commercials!

A television commercial is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message. Advertisement revenue provides a significant portion of the funding for most privately owned television networks. The vast majority of television advertisements today consist of brief advertising spots, ranging in length from a few seconds to several minutes, as well as program-length "infomercials."

Click the link below for some great tips on writing effective commercials!

How to Write a Television Commercial

And click here to get some inspiration for your own commercial!

TVCommercialsNow

YouTube Adblitz

Creating a Treatment

What is a treatment?

By Benjamin Craig , filmmaking.net

A treatment is a narrative version of the story in script, presented in story format, describing the main action with little or no dialogue. Many writers use treatments as a way of fleshing out their stories in narrative format to map out the flow of the action across the major scenes in the script before they start work on the dialogue. This way the writer can be sure that the story flows correctly before they commence the actually script. Most treatments are no more than 2-5 pages.

For a fun try at your first movie treatment try this link at Bill Myers Online!

Advanced Digital Film Technique

Students continuing in Digital Film II will work toward advancing their existing skills... and learning brand new ones, too.! We will get started with the professional pre-production software Celtx to help us organize our storyboards, screenplays, production schedules, etc. Click the links below to learn more about Celtx!


The Feature Tour

The Celtx Wiki-Tutorials

Project Central



Digital Film II students will also be making use of Google SketchUp 7 to make professional quality storyboard graphics for use with Celtx. Use the links below to learn more about Google SketchUp 7!



SketchUp Video Tutorials

Self-Paced SketchUp Tutorials

Google 3D Warehouse of SketchUp Models

The SketchUp Blog!

Think you have a brilliant movie idea?

Test your next Academy Award winning film idea here!

Is it really a brilliant film idea?

Finding good film ideas

Developing good film ideas

The art of storytelling

Screenplay structure

The importance of rewriting