Write Your Screenplay Podcast

This week, Jacob Krueger discusses Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and one of the most important skills a screenwriter needs: the ability to develop a distinctive take on historical material or a pitch for a work-for-hire project that makes your approach to a story unique from any other writer.

This week, Jacob Krueger discusses Chernobyl as an example of how to write an essential and effective miniseries, what makes the miniseries format so unique, and how to determine whether your project has the epic scope, relevant theme, visual beauty, and character journey needed to become a miniseries.

In his final Game of Thrones podcast, Jacob Krueger discusses the series finale and the lessons it has to offer screenwriters regarding the importance of compression in keeping your audience engaged and on the edge of their seats until the very end.

This week, Jacob Krueger analyzes Episode 5 and discusses how the three levels of structure - plot, emotion, and theme - need to tie together to create a powerful journey for both your characters and your audience.

For eight seasons, Game of Thrones has attracted and retained a devoted audience. Now drawing to a dramatic finale in Season 8, this week we take a look back at Season 1 and how by building a powerful series engine the show has kept viewers flocking back to this fantastical world year after year.

Jacob Krueger discusses the unique structure of Roma, and how to use the lessons from Alfonso Cuarón’s script to a true life story from your own life as a screenplay or film.

From Goodfellas To Breaking Bad with Stephen Molton by Jacob Krueger Studio

Beautiful BOY ISA Final Candidate by Jacob Krueger Studio

Jacob Krueger shows you how to adapt a true life story, without falling into the many pitfalls of adaptation, using both the strengths and weaknesses of BlacKkKlansman as a model.

Jacob Krueger does a deep analysis of a scene from Succession to show you how to create subtext in your dialogue.

Learn how Succession and Arrested Development actually share the same foundational structure and series engine. Part 1.

Hereditary script analysis podcast with Jacob Krueger. Learn from the movie Hereditary how the first and last image of your script relate to screenplay structure.

Jacob Krueger talks about the role of tone in genre, and how the writers of Deadpool controlled the tone to handle heavy topics in such a lighthearted way.

Jacob Krueger interviews head TV writer, screenwriter and director Katie Torpey

In the first installment of this podcast, we looked at A Quiet Place in relation to writing action and discussed how all of screenplay formatting really exists for one purpose: to isolate visual moments of action. How does this relate to theme and character and dialogue and all those other elements of A Quiet Place and screenwriting in general? Well, that’s what we’re going to cover in this podcast.

Jacob Krueger analyzes the screenplay for A Quiet Place, and teaches you how great action and great screenplay formatting really boil down to four simple concepts.

In this podcast episode, Jacob Krueger analyzes the seemingly unrelated scripts for Isle of Dogs and the Roseanne reboot, and shows you what you can learn from each about writing for political change.

In this very special 100th Episode, Jacob Krueger and Audrey Sussman PhD discuss how learning to nurture the inner artist that is the source of your creativity can change not only your writing, but also your life.

Jacob Krueger breaks down Season 4, Episode 9 of Bojack Horseman to show you how the writers of Bojack break the rules of structure to create the tone of the series.

On this podcast episode, Jacob Krueger breaks down The Florida Project, to show the underlying structure that makes this seemingly structureless film so successful.