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I write about stories. A lot. At any given moment, I am thinking about how a story works and trying to understand how they work. As a consultant, I guided my clients toward realizing their artistic visions through my extensive understanding of storytelling.
Here, you can see a collection of my script reports, reviews of stories on Animation for Adults, and articles I have written on my personal method of giving feedback. You can further review my critique work on my YouTube channel, TimeCapsule, and read my book, Reframing The Screenwriting Process, which also fleshes out my method for critiquing stories and is available on Amazon. All links can be found on my website.
Feel free to read my reviews on Fiverr.com (https://www.fiverr.com/sslepian/write-your-short-script)
When I first left college and was desperately scrambling to gain the skills I'd been too indecisive to learn in school, I took a screenwriting class at SVA. My professor, while no doubt a capable...
As a script consultant, I see tons of well-constructed and interesting screenplays that simply cannot help but indulge in the cinematic appeal of camera direction. Screenwriters tend to think visually: that's often why we choose our medium over other forms of writing.
Screenplays are a strange form of writing. There is a certain utility to it that makes simply reading through the text insufficient to judge its overall worth. Unlike with plays, most screenplays you...
There are some pieces of art that use aesthetics so effectively to make its point, you begin thinking about its themes in a brand new way. Thomas Cole forever changed our conception of natural landscapes, from quaint and pastoral to awesome, overwhelming, and sublime.
Who says we all die alone? Death Parade is a 2015 anime based on a 2013 short film, Death Billiards. It follows the solemn work of the "arbiters" of Quindecim - a purgatory-like place where souls go to be judged as fit for reincarnation or "the void."
A script report I wrote for a client. The title of the screenplay and the main character's name have been redacted.
A script report I wrote for a client. The title of the screenplay has been redacted.