Write Your Screenplay Podcast

NOT La La Land by Jacob Krueger Studio

Jacob Krueger finishes the 2017 Screenwriting Challenge with a special writing exercise!

The Second Check-In for the Jacob Krueger Studio 2017 Screenwriting Challenge! Jacob talks about the Writer's fear, and how to overcome it!

The First Check In for the 2017 Screenwriting Challenge! This week, Jacob Krueger has some inspiration and advice for our Challenge participants!

This week Jake has a special podcast featuring Jessica Hinds, and a New Year's Challenge!

This week, Jake analyzes Eric Heisserer's new sci-fi feature film Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner

Transparent: The Series and the Craft by Jacob Krueger Studio

Doctor Strange - Feeding The Genre Monster by Jacob Krueger Studio

This week, Jake breaks down the latest seasonal thriller movie, Don't Breathe

This week, Jake analyzes how Hell or High Water breaks the typical cops-and-robbers movie mold.

This week, Jake takes a break from film analysis in order to share a lecture from his Screenwriting Masterclass.

This week, Jake analyzes the title character (Sully) in the new film starring Tom Hanks and directed by Clint Eastwood.

This week, Jake dives deeper into his analysis of the pilot for Netflix's new hit series, Stranger Things.

This week, Jake breaks down the pilot for the new hit Netflix series, Stranger Things.

The Write Your Screenplay Podcast takes a break from its regular programming in order to share one of Jacob Krueger's Master Class lectures on the most important elements of writing for hire, as well as some valuable tips on how to get you there faster.

Join Jacob Krueger as he sifts through the Script Soup that is 'Suicide Squad' in order to find the truly great stories and themes that could have given more structure to this summer flop.

Recording of the Table Read My Script Teleconference with Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger

Jake's latest Write Your Screenplay podcast on the film by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

Part 2 of the Captain America Civil War podcast dives into emotional vs. logical or political motives and how stronger emotional triggers could have made audiences feel fulfilled vs. entertained.

Building the franchise engine and finding the formula in comic book movies.

A look at Richard Linklater's latest film and what screenwriters can learn from its unconventional story structure - Part 2!

A look at Richard Linklater's latest film and what screenwriters can learn from its unconventional story structure.

What they got right (and wrong) with Tina Fey's newest film, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and what you can learn from it to improve your own screenwriting techniques!

All of the answers for where we need to go in your story already exist in the initial pages of your screenplay. The structure of your movie can grow organically simply by looking at the things that exist in your story, and saying, “If this is true, what else must also be true? And if this is true, what else must also be true? And if this is true, what else must also be true?” In this context, by t...

It’s interesting that we’re looking at Room because, as screenwriters, we often lock ourselves in our own little rooms. Like the main characters of Room, we get bound up by other people’s rules, by our own comfort zone as screenwriters, by the movies that we have seen before. And we forget that every wall has another side, that there is actually something out there bigger than the story we know ho...