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Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can apply those lessons to your own writing. More information and full archives at WriteYourScreenplay.com831588

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NOT La La Land 04.02.2017 40:47

NOT La La Land by Jacob Krueger Studio

The Final Challenge Check-In 19.01.2017 43:33

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

The Second Challenge Check-In! 12.01.2017 21:50

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

Challenge Check In 05.01.2017 14:13

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

Screenwriting Challenge 31.12.2016 50:12

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

Arrival: The Writer's Journey 08.12.2016 32:21

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 17.11.2016 26:17

Transparent: The Series and the Craft by Jacob Krueger Studio

Doctor Strange - Feeding The Genre Monster 13.11.2016 38:48

Doctor Strange - Feeding The Genre Monster by Jacob Krueger Studio

Don't Breathe - The Write Your Screenplay Podcast 27.10.2016 32:31

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

Hell Or High Water 20.10.2016 20:40

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

A Trip to Cambodia - & Act Structure & The Art of the Outline 04.10.2016 30:52

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

Sully - Does Your Movie Need An Antagonist? 22.09.2016 48:00

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

Stranger Things - Part 2 - Writing a Pilot that Sells 15.09.2016 35:12

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

Stranger Things - Part 1 - The Show Engine & the Bible 08.09.2016 28:06

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

The 3 Most Important Elements When Writing for Hire 26.08.2016 38:06

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.

Suicide Squad: Script Soup 16.08.2016 31:46

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.

What Readers Want: 5 Steps To Screenwriting Success 03.08.2016 1:28:32

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

Swiss Army Man: The Bad Screenplay Experiment 14.07.2016 32:55

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

Part 2 - Captain America Civil War - How to Build a Superhero Movie 09.06.2016 26:13

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.

Captain America: Civil War - How to Build the Superhero Movie - Part 1 24.05.2016 12:32

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

Everybody Wants Some: Structure Without Structure - Part 2 05.05.2016 16:32

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

Everybody Wants Some: Structure Without Structure - Part 1 21.04.2016 12:23

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

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: WTF is Wrong with WTF? 14.04.2016 16:15

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!

10 Cloverfield Lane: Everything Possible Must Happen 18.03.2016 24:00

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...

Room: What's On The Other Side Of Your Wall? 10.03.2016 26:06

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...