With apologies to the original author of 12 Steps to Screenplay Heaven, unknown. Additional points by Philip Taylor 1. A one-line idea of what your story is about, featuring the main character. 2. Turn that one line into three lines, briefly outlining the story. 3. Turn the three lines into three paragraphs. 4. Write five …
A girl might love her guitar almost as much as she loves her dad… My good friend Robert Brown came to visit. Previously he was a film editor, very much in demand to cut ‘Horizon’ and other top BBC documentary films. We were talking about one of the central characters in my screenplay and he …
“I worked with Philip on God’s Composer – a doc about the Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria. I directed the music sequences to accompany Alison Grist’s doc sections. Philip is intellectually one of the cleverest editors I have worked with. He is analytically acute, musically responsive, and has a startlingly wide-eyed enthusiasm for, frankly, everything. He’s …
Phil, I meant to call you after last week and say thanks. Really like the stuff you did, and I know Matt and Tim (film directors Matt Ainsworth and Tim Walker) were very complimentary. Great work, great style. Impressed. Thanks. Paul King, SP, ‘Bang Goes The Theory’, BBC TV, Science
