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		<title>The ScriptCoach Seven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a producer, writer, and busy script consultant, what I have come to believe is that for a screenplay to be successful, the script reader must be able to answer &#8220;yes&#8221; to the following seven questions:

Is the premise commercial and believable?
Can you “see” the poster?  
Is the genre clear?
Is there a clear protagonist? 
Is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>The Conception of &#8220;Inception&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the big sequels, remakes, adaptations, video games, comic books and book series being turned into movies these days, I find it fantastic that one of the biggest summer blockbusters is going to the be the truly original “Inception,” written and directed by Christopher Nolan.  And I think it’s going to help change what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Mr. Goldman, Know Thyself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest screenwriters of all time is Academy Award winner William Goldman. His credits read like the list of AFI’s Best Movies of All-Time. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “All the President’s Men,” “The Princess Bride,” “Misery,” “Maverick,” “Chaplin,” “Absolute Power,” etc.  And his book, “Adventures in the Screen Trade” is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Playing Hollywood Nice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether we are meeting a new writer at a pitchfest or in a meeting or technologically like through VPF, the biggest fears that every development executive have are these: is this person going to play nice? Is this person speaking to me going to be someone that I am want to deal with for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=87</link>
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		<title>My Top Ten Films Of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the ten films I enjoyed the most in 2009 with two runner-ups as well: 
“500 Days of Summer” – I liked this film because it was a love story told from a young man’s perspective.
“The Hurt Locker” – I loved everything about this movie, especially the scene where the soldiers get so hot and tired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>What Not To Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the end of the year, so in the spirit of giving, I wanted to present you with the 5 things I hear most often from writers&#8230;and why they’re not the things you should be saying.
1) “No, no, you don’t understand…Mine’s really good!”  I will never believe a writer who says this until the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=85</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It All Began With Perrier&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m pretty sure it all started with Perrier. You see, I’m old enough to remember the good old days when you could sit down at a restaurant and were just given tap water instead of having to know if you want tap, flat, bottled, sparkling, and with or without ice.
It’s been reported that Anxiety disorders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Three You&#8217;ll Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself, “How long does it take to write a screenplay?” Exactly. Too long to have to put up with nothing but rejection once it’s done. So why send anything out there that has no chance in hell?  Dig the climate out there among those who put up money for scripts and production.  There is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Oh God!&#8230;Again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I travel the country speaking to new groups of writers and attending pitchfests and conferences outside of Los Angeles, a certain trend in the types of material I hear has become clear and it alludes to a huge cultural difference between those who live in L.A. and NY and those who live elsewhere.
At an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Good Loglines</title>
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By now you know the importance of a good logline - but do you know how to write one?

Your logline is the first (and sometimes only) thing an executive is going to read of your work, so it needs to grab his or her attention, tell them something, make them curious to read more, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virtualpitchfest.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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