Writing

Hello 4381 Productions, Most love stories always end the same way. The main characters fall in love, their love is tested, something bad happens, and they somehow end up together in the end. [...]

After a brief discussion with KRH about Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, and an essay I wrote about Rear Window, I think I figured out why I didn’t really love the film. Here’s an [...]

If you read my last post, I recently wrote a short creative manifesto about my work as a screenwriter, filmmaker, and overall cinematic storyteller. This was created for a performance course [...]

I recently found myself writing a short “creative manifesto” in collaboration with a performance course and my thesis screenplay. The manifesto could have been about any part of my [...]

Experientia docet Latin – experience teaches This was a week of highs and lows. A churning tumult of emotions, actions and reactions. At the end of the day, we are all still here. At the [...]

How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 John Ford film about life in a Welsh mining town. It was adapted from the 1939 book of the same title written by Richard Llewllyn. The original intent was to [...]

Welcome back once again to Noah’s thesis adventure! I have written a logline. I have organized a beat sheet of all the major plot points. I even have my killer title. The true struggle is [...]

  You know when you want something to be perfect, so you hold off on it until you’re sure you are in a space to make sure it’s exactly how you want it to be? But then it tends to [...]

For the past few weeks, I have dedicated some time to researching screenplays and films for my thesis. These materials have ranged from the popular to the unknown, but one obscure piece that has [...]

My first blog post. This journey should be fun. Hopefully. Let’s do this. As some of you may or may not know, I’m starting my Senior Honors Thesis this year. This sort of project usually pertains [...]