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Most screenwriters need to be able to craft characters outside their own backgrounds and experiences. But it isn’t easy and often requires collaboration – with AI able to offer a helping hand.
No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it actually say?
Hollywood has been using artificial intelligence for 20 years. But the current actors’ and writers’ strikes are specifically concerned about generative AI.
Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
A team of scholars is digitizing the scripts of Eaton, the Montréal-born daughter of a Chinese mother and an English silk importer father.
An academic has developed a system to measure how much the golden ratio aligns with the plot elements of our all-time favourite Christmas films.
Renting locations, hotel rooms, offices and cast trailers can eat the lion’s share of a budget. We rented an off-season summer camp and won best feature film at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival 2020.
This Netflix TV series following an ensemble of young hopefuls in the 1950s is sophisticated, juicy and eye-opening entertainment.
Key to the success of the much-lauded Fleabag is its creator’s repurposing of two cliched narrative devices: flashback and breaking the fourth wall.
In the popular Australian TV series Wentworth, the setting of a women’s prison is a pressure-cooker for drama. The setting also allows for greater representation of diverse female characters.
Writing episodic TV, scriptwriters traditionally work from a principle of having three stories woven together through an episode. These are known as the A story, the B story and the C story.
The Merger draws on the conventions of the sports film to explore and challenge attitudes towards refugees in Australia.
The social structures that once enabled male artists to exploit and abuse women must be cast into the past. But castigating their work to the scrapheap is an act of cultural suicide.
Vladimir Nabokov merged writing and cinema, bringing the art forms together like no one before or since.
A spate of recent TV shows feature protagonists whose mental health condition gives them special skills. But these are often accessed by rejecting medication.
The Australian Writers Guild has launched a legal case against Screenrights, the body charged with collecting royalties on its behalf. What is Screenrights and what does it do?
From Chris Rock’s opening monologue to red carpet hits (and misses), our experts analyze key moments from this year’s Academy Awards.
Why don’t we Australians love our Neighbours? Perhaps the long-running soap is a local victim of tall poppy syndrome – but the sunny vision of Australian suburban life remains wildly popular internationally.
When you tell someone a story, do you plan it out beforehand so that it’ll sound good? Do you carefully plot what you’ll say, in a specific order? Or does the story find a way of telling itself, the plot…
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Dean of Research (Creative), Adelaide University
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Honorary Fellow (Screenwriting), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne/PhD Candidate, UniSA Creative, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer (screenwriting), English & Creative Writing, University of Staffordshire
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Senior Lecturer of Cinema Studies, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Former Honorary Research Associate, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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