Editor: Dara McNaught
Executive Director: Steven Gannaway

Features

• Head Cases

  Dara McNaught interviews Brad Haami about a radical new concept in Maori comedy/drama – made by a UK TV company.

• Value Added? – the Role of the Maori Script Consultant

  From words to wardrobing… WriteUP Online asks: What do Maori script consultants do?

• A Beginner’s Guide to the Logline

  Loglines – are they worth the effort? And if so, what’s the point?

  by Jane Sherning Warren.
• LA’s a Small Town

  Michael Raymond’s adventures as a Nicholl finalist

  Edited by Leonie Reynolds

Book Reviews

• Screenwriting for Teens 100 principles of screen writing every budding writer must know. By Christina Hamlett
  Reviewed by Graeme Tetley
• Archetypes for writers Using the power of your subconscious By Jennifer van Bergen
  Reviewed by Graeme Tetley
• The Moral Premise Harnessing virtue and vice for box office success By Stanley D. Williams, PhD
  Reviewed by Jane Sherning Warren
• The Creative Screenwriting Podcast Interviews with writers and directors. By Jeff Goldsmith.
  Reviewed by Benedict Reid

Quote

Making the Film (Eagle vs Shark) I really noticed how different the two story forms are. The short is free, poetic, limitless in its format, shape and style. The feature is much more conventional – limited by money, it forces you to obey story, plot and ‘acts’, and creates a relationship between you and the audience which is often frustrating and constraining. The short takes a month, the feature several years.

Apart from that they’re exactly the same.

Taika Waititi
(Two Cars, One Night; Eagle vs Shark)
‘Take’ Issue 47.