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Existential Cinema: How Do You Write an Existential Film?

November 2, 2026March 22, 2023 by Industrial Scripts

For the most part, cinema is a form of entertainment. But this is not to say that films cannot and should not concern themselves with some of the more serious aspects of life. It doesn’t get much more serious than existentialism. And an existential film, whilst often tricky to define, can be one of the most powerful ways to get an audience to muse on themes of life, death and existence. So how do you begin to filter such a

How Do You Write GOOD Parody in Film and TV?

November 2, 2026February 7, 2023 by Industrial Scripts

Parodies can contain a multitude of differences across a multitude of genres. So how do you even approach writing a tricky and difficult-to-define subgenre? In short, you must try to understand the nuances of parody and the nuances of what you’re parodying before trying to write parody in your screenplay. So in this article, we’ll break down some of the ways that parody can form in film and TV in order to better understand how you can realize it in

The KEY Building Blocks to Writing a GOOD Romantic Comedy

November 2, 2026November 23, 2022 by Industrial Scripts

Crazy, Stupid Love, Writing Romantic Comedy

The romantic comedy goes all the way back to Shakespeare, with plays such as Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream being full of love triangles and comic misunderstandings. If done right, writing romantic comedy can be a surefire way to crowd-please both critically and commercially. It’s a genre that has evolved through time but has remained extremely popular with audiences and the box office. Although sometimes reduced to cliche, romantic comedies, at their core, are about happiness and

The Viking Movie: 10 Elements to Writing This Powerful Sub Genre

November 2, 2026October 6, 2022 by Industrial Scripts

In many ways, the Viking movie is a sub-genre as old as the cinematic form itself. And Vikings have certainly been an integral part of folklore and storytelling for centuries. However, the Viking movie seems to have found new life in recent years. Not only that but Viking tropes find their way into movies and TV shows that have another primary genre, such as the Thor series. So how can you weave Viking elements into a screenplay? What do you

The Comedy Horror Movie: The KEYS to Both Laughs and Scares

November 2, 2026September 30, 2022 by Industrial Scripts

Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been cited as “the first great comedy horror story”, as readers were made to “laugh one moment and scream the next”. This is, in essence, what comedy horror movies are all about. We’ve all been in that situation where our friend is describing something awful…and yet our first instinct is to laugh. Is that because we’re horrible people? No! We tried not to laugh, after all. So why do we?