The Scriptfella Program
How to Write for the Hollywood Reader
How to Write for the Hollywood Reader
When Dominic Morgan - a.k.a. Scriptfella - contacted me back in 2022 to work on content for his online screenwriting course How to Write for the Hollywood Reader, I had no idea that I was about to become a part of what is possibly the best resource for screenwriters in any medium currently in existence.
As a lifetime filmmaker who's studied screenwriting at a university level, read books by all the greats – Robert McKee, Syd Field, William Goldman – I never expected anyone, at this stage in my career, to completely blow my mind quite like Dominic did. His unique take on the art of screenwriting and his advice on how best to do it has shattered my foundational understanding of what a screenplay is, who it's for, and why we write them.
I've felt incredibly honoured and humbled to work on the project as an editor and animator, doing my best to visualise Dominic's wisdom and present it so that every morsel is clearly and thoroughly embedded in the minds of his students. As a teacher, Dominic does not mess around. There is no filler in this course, no meandering segues into the history of storytelling, no nebulous philosophy of the three act structure. Everything he teaches has a clear and direct outcome on the words on the page and I wanted to bring that to life and show people just how much of an impact applying these techniques can make.
If you're a writer, especially if (like me) you find yourself growing tired of screenwriting as a creative outlet, I would say drop everything you're doing and don't write another word until you've done this course. It will give you some serious S-Teir skills you never even knew you needed.
As a lifetime filmmaker who's studied screenwriting at a university level, read books by all the greats – Robert McKee, Syd Field, William Goldman – I never expected anyone, at this stage in my career, to completely blow my mind quite like Dominic did. His unique take on the art of screenwriting and his advice on how best to do it has shattered my foundational understanding of what a screenplay is, who it's for, and why we write them.
I've felt incredibly honoured and humbled to work on the project as an editor and animator, doing my best to visualise Dominic's wisdom and present it so that every morsel is clearly and thoroughly embedded in the minds of his students. As a teacher, Dominic does not mess around. There is no filler in this course, no meandering segues into the history of storytelling, no nebulous philosophy of the three act structure. Everything he teaches has a clear and direct outcome on the words on the page and I wanted to bring that to life and show people just how much of an impact applying these techniques can make.
If you're a writer, especially if (like me) you find yourself growing tired of screenwriting as a creative outlet, I would say drop everything you're doing and don't write another word until you've done this course. It will give you some serious S-Teir skills you never even knew you needed.