“Like all stories, musicals can be joyous, somber, thrilling, meditative, lively, plodding, goofy, emotional, political, instructive, and on and on. What they are obliged to be, first and foremost, is entertaining….” ~Steve Cuden If you’re going to...
Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. ~Steven Spielberg Most unforgettable stories go like this…. An interesting, three-dimensional protagonist is prompted by an outside force to...
Host Heather Abraham of Talk Pittsburgh on KDKA TV talks with Steve Cuden, a Point Park University Cinema Art Department faculty member, about why some musicals do not find success on the big screen. Watch below or see the clip on CBS News Pittsburg here.
“A dramatic story is any series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, striking interest or results.” ~William Froug, Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade Setting the Parameters: The Story’s Sandbox Story is the sandbox that screenwriters play in. When...
The Challenge of Creating Memorable Moments Ever wonder why we mere mortals—those of us living without benefit of a photographic memory—upon seeing a musical only once, are usually unable to remember in any true detail more than a handful of scenes and production...
