On Writing: with Lucy Brydon, Jess Jones & Edward Cripps

In the first episode of Short Hand, we’re asking ‘what is story’? And how can you tell a brilliant one with your short film script? Our guests are filmmaker and lecturer Lucy Brydon, script editor Jess Jones and screenwriter Edward Cripps. 

Topics covered include: structure, exercising restraint, creating the circumstances for subtext to breathe, how to figure out what you’re trying to say, writing authentic dialogue, receiving and implementing notes and moving on after rejection. 

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SHOW NOTES & RESOURCES

• BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund 
• Cracked Screen (2017, dir. Trim Lamba) 
• Lucy Brydon on the development process for her debut feature ‘Body of Water’ // Little White Lies
• On Writing, Stephen King
• On Writers & Writing, Margaret Atwood
• Into the Woods, John Yorke
• An interview with Jess Jones on the John Yorke blog

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Short Hand is a BFI NETWORK & Film Hub South East production.

Produced by Nicole Davis, with support from Independent Cinema Office.

Edited by Graciela Mae Chico.