SWAMP’s Coverage Workshop Information: How to Become a Hollywood (or SWAMP) Reader! INSTRUCTOR: Jenny Waldo Read as many scripts (ones that made successful movies) is helpful reference.  Places to find scripts: http://www.script-o-rama.com/ Book reference: Reading for a Living: How to be a Professional Story Analyst for Film & Television by T.L. Katahn. Purpose of Coverage: Who is your audience?  Where is this project coming from?  Personality comes into play: what does this

I am often asked, as a writer and as a filmmaker, where ideas come from.  It’s a question that I have a very strong reaction to because, where do ideas NOT come from?  Who doesn’t have ideas?  And that reminds me that people think and live and breathe in different ways.  I think visually; I have to SEE it.  I also have words, dialogue, arguments, rants, and other verbal insanity running through my head at all times.  And when there aren’t words there are songs from the radio.