Useful Resources for English and Media

Words are powerful, and Martin Luther King Jr. was an absolute master of this medium. Transcript: ''I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.''             Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech is arguably the most important and most well-known speech of the 20th century. It's 1667 words and 17 minutes long, absolutely riddled with big difficult terms and full of rhetorical devices that are intentional and practiced. The speech as everyone knows was delivered at the march on Washington in 1963 and voiced the economic, political, and moral message of civil rights to a quarter million people in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Onto those people and the billions who have seen or heard it since, King's words imprinted an image of what black Americans were fighting for and why, fully 100 years after Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves wit...

I love bad movies. You really can learn so much about film by looking at the stuff that doesn't work well. Transcript:             So in the script I wrote this in a bullet point as ''cold open''  because I couldn't think of anything in specific and that's what I do when I script. If I hit a point where I'm not quite sure what to do I try to just write a sentence or two outside the voice of the script, literally describing what needs to happen to join where the script is at to the point that's following it. It's a very utilitarian method, but it helps me get around writer's block and minimize problems where different ideas will make unstated logical leaps in between. Then the longer I stared at it the more absurd it became because, you know, it's the cold open to The Art of Editing and The Snowman , and it just sat there, taunting me, practically begging for a joke or some setup for a pun that would make Joel Schumacher cringe in his...