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Contest Winners: Official Selection Dances With Films, Valerie Brandy

As an actress, she recently recurred as Trixie in season 3 of FX's Emmy-winning show Justified. She works frequently in independent film, and projects she's appeared in have screened at dozens of festivals, including Tribeca, AFI, New York International Film Festival, Starz Denver, etc. She is attached as a large supporting role....

Contest Winning Screenwriter, Richard Pierce

Episode 378This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Writer Richard Pierce.They talk about how Richard Pierce was the winner of the 2020 Six-Figure Screenplay Contest.From that, his script Killer Profile (AKA - Friend Request) was produced by Marvista Entertainment.Other topics include writing specificall....

Context

Context is what influence character: culture, historical period, location, occupation, etc.....

Contingent Compensation

Form of compensation received by a writer, after the writing services have been completed, if he is awarded writing credit for the project. The contingent compensation may include a production bonus, net profits, reserved rights, and/or additional payments in the event of a film or television sequel, remake, or spinoff. ....

Continuity

Degree to which a movie is self-consistent without error or jumpcuts. ....

Continuity Report

Detailed list of the events that occurred during the filming of a scene. ....

Continuous

Sometimes, instead of DAY, NIGHT, DUSK, or DAWN at the end of a SLUG LINE, you’ll see CONTINUOUS. In these instances, action moves from one location to another without an interruptions in time.....

CONTRACTS MATTER: AGREEMENTS TO PROTECT YOUR ASSETS

Ellen Cohen will walk you through the important agreements in a writer’s professional life from initial collaboration with a co-writer, to working with a non-writing producer, to acquiring underlying material, and the brass ring of THE WRITER AGREEMENT. Learn what you should be thinking about throughout all of these stages, what questions to....

Contrast

Contrast is a great way to define character duos, especially in “buddy pictures”. Opposites do attract, and by contrasting two characters that seemingly have nothing in common, but with further investigation, it is clear they do share common ground, the strongest character dynamics can be achieved. For example, there may be clear polari....

Control Track

Type of video editing that controls the in and out points of edits by counting pulses on a control track portion of the videotape. ....

Cookie

Flat piece of material with irregular holes cut into it. Used for creating pattern of shadows when positioned in front of a light source. ....

Copyright

Body of United States federal laws and international laws that protect original and creative expression that is in a fixed and tangible form. ....

Copyright Witness

Copyright registration with Copyright Witness is the fast, effective and low cost way to protect your work. Whether you are a song writer, designer, artist, author, company or individua....

Cordell Productions, LLC

Cordell Productions is a minority woman-owned production company committed to DIVERSITY + INCLUSION + REPRESENTATION. We have more than 50 years combined professional writing (screenplays, corporate, marketing, advertising, training, etc.) experience and more than 80 screenwriting (film, television, stage) awards across multiple genres including d....

Core

Plastic piece used to hold film without a reel. ....

Core Literary Inc.

Please check out the website at CoreLiteraryInc.com for a complete company profile/history.....

Coronet Management

Coronet Entertainment is a multifaceted company that manages both talent and literary clients, plus develops and produces entertainment properties across multiple platforms.....

Coronet Writers Lab

Coronet Writers Lab is a group of amazingly talented writers and actors working together to help get writer\\\'s screenplays, stage plays and teleplays the absolute best they can be.....

Corpus Polymedia

For our clients we shoot YouTube videos, music videos, soundtrack videos, film score videos, corporate videos, motion pictures, documentaries, festival stingers, shorts, and more.....