by Giles Broadbent | Feb 23, 2021 | Techniques
You have a brilliant idea for an article. You want someone else to read (and pay for) this brilliance. Here’s how to put together a perfect pitch Pot luck pitching Pitching is pot luck much of the time. Some editors receive hundreds of pitches and press releases and...
by Giles Broadbent | Aug 20, 2020 | Techniques
The screenwriting credits of Shane Black are littered with blockbusters with a twist. So what does the creator of Lethal Weapon bring to a script? Screenwriter Shane Black leaves his fingerprints everywhere. You know him by his works. And those works are...
by Giles Broadbent | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Are you planning to return to the popcorn, the dark and the Dolby? On the face of it, cinemas face a big task to overcome the menace of Covid-19. They seem like the cruise ships of the land-locked – one big melting pot of disease. We may be wrong. We hope we are....
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
The slow-burn Netflix true-crime series Unbelievable contains truths about rape and the failings of the justice system that are too hard to take Here’s something I did with the Netflix crime drama Unbelievable that I’ve never done before. I censored a...
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog
The golden age of TV has a new star – real life. So why have documentaries become big news? And what does it mean for good old-fashioned fiction? Truth is stranger than fiction – but truth isn’t much of a stranger any more. It’s everywhere – at least in the...
