SAB JOHN’S BLOG

The popularity of digital platforms has changed the possibilities for short films, making them more presentable to a worldwide audience, gain appreciation, and harness the power of online communities to support their artistic endeavors. This increased accessibility...

Dark comedy is a subgenre of comedy in screenwriting that combines humor with elements of darkness, satire, and cynicism. It typically explores taboo or morbid subjects, often highlighting the absurdity and irony of serious or disturbing situations. Dark comedy can be...

WHAT IS A SHORT FILM?A short film is a cinematic work that is typically shorter in duration than a feature film. While there is no strict definition of the exact length, short films are generally characterized by their brevity, with most falling under 40 minutes in...

‘Specs’ are generally written by aspiring screenwriters to establish their talent as a writer; or a card to direct the movie themselves. So, the intention is to impress the reader – a producer or a representative or sometimes a prospective director or an actor. And...

When aspiring screenwriters connect with me for various academic and industrial reasons, they ask me what it means a script and a screenplay.Are they the same? Though both the names come under the same classification of writing for the screens, there is a slight...

In this segment we will look at the two other categories of True stories. 3. “Based on” True Events In this format, what is central to the story line is a historical event, a story is then built around this with the use of fictional characters. While the names,...

True stories make for the biggest “box office hits “in Indian cinema, second only to those based on Intellectual Property. Let’s dig deeper into the finer aspects of both the genres, understand how one approaches the story telling in order to adapt it to screen and...

Ideas propel creativity, they are the starting point of any action. In story telling it is the culmination of many ideas that lend to the elements of a well meshed story.       It’s an idea that first motivates the characters, as those ideas...