Thomas Fenton ON: QUALITY Work and the Practice of Creativity
Activated Authors
English - April 25, 2022 04:27 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBooks Arts Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thomas Fenton is an American screenwriter whose writing credits include SAW IV, I Spit On Your Grave 2, Slay Per View on CryptTv. Chain Letter (drft) and the Max Payne (drft). He is also the author of The Scream Writers Handbook: How to Write a Terrifying Screenplay in 10 Bloody Steps.
Thomas has worked with Paramount Pictures, DC, and Lionsgate (to name a few), and on top of an active writing and directing career, also takes the time to teach future screenwriters at workingscreenwriter.com
In this episode we go deep into:
Thomas’ first big break [09:08]
Quality over quantity [12:00]
Thomas ‘Thick Skin’ [13:58]
How he gets to the words and the work of a screenplay [19:20]
Communicating the core idea of a story [22:33]
The practice of creativity [27:01]
Common screenwriter mistakes [31:35]
Saw 4,. the Journey [35:51]
Robert Evans [52:27]
legacy [57:00]
Directing your own screenplay [59:09]
Find out more about Thomas Fenton:
IG: @thomasfenton_insta
Links from the show:
‘The Scream Writers Handbook’
‘Riding the Alligator’
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Special thanks to:
Show theme: Karl Hughes
Show editing: Sam Frost