Ok… so… ya. We haven’t made a blog post in MONTHS. That is ridiculous and inexcusable. We have been VERY VERY busy.

For now we have finished work on our feature-length script Lost Case.We have entered it into the BlueCat Screenplay competition, received some good feedback on it and have decided to put it on the back-burner for now.

We are now working on a project we have been tinkering with for years. It is a TV Comedy series that we may possibly produce ourselves for the web.

We will be attending the 2010 Banff World Television Festival in June, but we aren’t going to be pushing the project so hard on people. We will take a more laid-back approach and just network, learn, relax and possibly try and find some production partners. This year Banff is combined with the annual NextMedia festival, which is somewhat exciting. The world of “pictures” is moving to the Internet, it seems. A lot of the big players are moving into the web world right now. We’ll hopefully also get to meet some celebrities who will be there such as Ricky Gervais and none other than William Shatner himself! We’re very excited.

So there may be a lot of mystery surrounding our new project, but we will make an announcement shortly about the details of the project.

Sorry again for the lack of posts. Things should be picking-up again in the Broken Forty world.

Hello. It’s been long since I posted.

I’ve been involved recently in an awesome screenwriting community at the Screenwriting Goldmine Forums that I wanted to share. It is totally devoted to the art/craft and business of screenwriting. There are some very knowledgeable people active in the community.

In particular, I wanted to mention this post made by a guru member Scrivener. It talks about the types of coverage and analysis you can get from the different outfits which offer such services, and gives a few nods to some of the trusted ones.

Here is an excerpt:

“A professional story analyst (“reader”) will read your feature-length script 80-120 pages (no books for this special) and will analyze it in a coverage report of 3 pages single-spaced. Comments section will be two pages min. No synopsis is included.

This report will contain the following:
Logline (1-3 sentences) summary of your story.
Comments (includes strengths and weaknesses regarding, structure, dialogue and character. A few suggestions on how to improve script).
Grid Rating of: Premise, Storyline, Structure, Characterization and Dialogue
Overall Rating of script: Pass, Consider or Recommend (with your permission, we will alert the industry about your material should it get a consider or recommend). We are not agents or producers and will not take a percentage of any deal. We make the introduction and step aside. No follow-up calls to the industry regarding your script will be made.
Turnaround time is 2-3 weeks. We will notify you by e-mail when material and payment are received.

Scripts over 120 pages will be charged an additional $1 per page over the 120 page count.
Their coverage is of a very high standard.”

If you are interested in screenwriting, this is the place you should go to seek advice.

Once you become a contributing member (more than 20 posts) you may gain access to the password protected section which lets you share your scripts and loglines with the other members for critique.

We are pleased to announce that we have reached the incredible milestone of being half way through the first draft on our Comedy/Thriller Lost Case!

We started this draft exactly two weeks ago, and need to be finished exactly two weeks from today. Thus far, we are on track. We have written Act One and the first half of Act Two, and need to write the second half of Act two and Act three in the coming weeks.

Stay tuned to our projects page for an updated One-Sheet for Lost Case, and to our blog for news!

So I was just poking around on the internet and I stumbled across another great interview with Jana. This one is from ChickLitGurrl, and is another compelling read!

She also gives Nathan and me a covert little shout out…

Thanks Jana!

The Interview

Our friend The Mayor over at the City of Films recently did a spotlight on our mentor Jana Williams, who just launched an online screenwriting tutorial.

It’s a great read that touches on a variety of subjects in the realm of screenwriting, and you should check it out!

Part One

Part Two