Film Courage: Do facts make good stories?
Jill Chamberlain, Script Consultant/Author/Writer: Facts are tricky. I think the hardest stories to break are ones that are based on real-life events.
I have a philosophy a little bit with my students and clients that when it comes to research I say Wikipedia It And Be Done! The more you know sometimes is a problem actually. Now that is going to work with some stories better than others. You can have a lot more freedom if you’re going to write about William Wallace where there are very few written records at that time and you can have an enormous amount of freedom with something like BRAVEHEART because we knew very little about the man. Versus if you are going to do a story about Elton John, someone who is actually living and whose facts a lot of us know…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It’s on the syllabus at film schools all over the world and has been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format.
As a script consultant, Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (Screenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. Complete beginners to Emmy-winning screenwriters and award-winning producers enroll in her classes.
Find out more about her and her script consultancy at jillchamberlain.com.
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