SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 485 – Writing a Screenplay in Two Days With Franklin Ritch
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Writer/Director Franklin Ritch about his new feature, ‘The Artifice Girl’ (2022) which Franklin Ritch wrote, directed, and acted in.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Writer/Director Franklin Ritch. They talk about his new feature, The Artifice Girl (2022) which Franklin Ritch wrote, directed, and acted in.
Topics include looking to the future of AI (Artificial Intelligence) since that is the subject explored in the movie.
Franklin also talks about how they shot part of the movie as a proof of concept in order to get the full feature made and how he was able to write the first draft of The Artifice Girl in only two days.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Franklin Ritch on IMDb
- Franklin Ritch website
- The Artifice Girl Trailer
- The Artifice Girl on IMDb
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.