Get Real: Indie Filmmakers

Producing & Knowing Story Structure | guest Paul Chitlik


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Paul Chitlik has written for all the major networks and studios. He was story editor for MGM/UA’s The New Twilight Zone, staff writer for Showtime’s sitcom Brothers, wrote features for Rysher Entertainment, Nulmage, Promark, Mainline Releasing, and others. He directed episodes of Real Stories of the Highway Patrol and wrote and produced Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape for UPN. Recently he wrote, produced, and directed The Wedding Dress for Amazon Prime.

Paul taught screenwriting at UCLA, TV and film writing at Loyola Marymount, and founded their study abroad program in Budapest, Hungary. He has written two screenwriting books: Rewrite, and Screenwriting Sensei.

GET REAL INDIE FILM[CAST] is hosted by filmmaker and author Jeffrey Michael Bays (www.borgus.com), and filmmaker Forris Day, Jr.

Show Notes:

  1. Producing
  2. Producer-director relationship
  3. Development process is getting harder
  4. Audience expectations are universal
  5. Story structure in series vs. features
  6. Paul's 7 points of story within the acts
  7. Alternate structures
  8. Rewriting and responding to feedback
  9. What he's watching now
  10. Paul's book: https://www.amazon.com/Screenwriting-Sensei-Complete-Writing-Script/dp/1615933638

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Email us: [email protected]

Hosts: Jeffrey Michael Bays & Forris Day, Jr.

Jeffrey's book Creatives Working Together: https://www.amazon.com/Creatives-Working-Together-Communication-Professionals/dp/1041091893

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