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We’re on the move – and launching our new website! 🎉
Evalution Media is getting a fresh new home, and our blog is coming with us. We’re moving everything over to our new website to better showcase our scriptwriting and filmmaking services, and the Scriptwriters Blog will be right at the heart of it. The good news? You don’t need to…
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2025: Transitions
As this year comes to a close, I’ve realised that transition is the word that best sums up 2025. It’s been challenging, joyful, exhausting, expansive – sometimes all at once – and it’s quietly set the foundations for some very big things to come. Looking Back: A Year of Shifts…
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The Heroine’s Journey, Why I Believe It’s Bigger Than Murdock’s Blueprint
When people talk about the Heroine Archetype, Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness (1990) inevitably comes up – often treated like the gospel counterpart to Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, (1949). And look, Murdock contributed something valuable to the conversation. She carved out space for the…
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the writing staff dream
I grew up on Buffy, I wanted to write because of it. I love the style of dialogue and the epic world and character building. I even did an interview for the Industry section of my Writing for Script and Screen MA with Jane Espenson! I wanted to be a…
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From Page to Screen – and Back Again: Why Some Stories Thrive in Adaptation
There’s something quietly thrilling about a good adaptation — when a story we thought we knew is handed over to a new medium and somehow becomes even more itself. Whether it’s a dense novel stretched out over multiple seasons, a short film finding its voice on stage, or a classic…
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“Nobody Got Cereal?”: South Park’s Funniest, Saddest Wake-Up Call
With South Park (1997 – present, Trey & Stone) returning this July, there’s no better time to revisit Nobody Got Cereal? — the ManBearPig episode that stopped being satire the minute we all started doom-scrolling climate reports between AI meltdowns, global unrest, and 24/7 misinformation. At first glance, it’s another…
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Brighton Fringe Festival 2025
As we move into the vibrant summer months, my focus shifts to performance – with our final performance of The Big Palava tonight. I’m thrilled to once again be part of the dynamic landscape of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2025, celebrating its 20th anniversary and have put together a summary…
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The Duchess – Pilot Episode Review
Punchy parenting, boyband exes, and why I unexpectedly related. The pilot of The Duchess (Ryan, 2020) wastes no time setting the tone: a mother-daughter conversation that’s political, pointed, and hilariously honest. Olive, Katherine Ryan’s sharp-tongued daughter, delivers the kind of truth bombs only a child could get away with —…
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The Rise of the Anti-Hero
When I first started researching archetypes for The Script Department podcast Typecast, I was drawn to the Anti-Hero—a character who’s not quite a villain, not quite a hero, but somehow manages to steal the show. As promised, here’s a deeper dive into why we learn to love these morally ambiguous…
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How To Format A Screenplay
Are you considering entering your screenplay into a festival or competition, applying for a mentorship scheme, the BBC, or sending your script to any other industry professional? Be it television or film, here’s a comprehensive outline of best practice for formatting your scripts… You can find Scene Headings in the…
Evalution Media Meets Eva Wilshere
After graduating my Masters in Screenwriting with Distinction, I threw my heart and soul into making The Year Dot into a short film with a very low budget. With whimsical naivety I decided I wanted to give as many people work and pay everyone fairly while also keeping the production set environmentally sound and hiring a diverse cast & crew, including a fair few NDs. And if you hadn’t already worked out I am AuDHD and was in the midst of a few new diagnoses and waitlists!
As soon as Dot was finished and we had our cast & crew screening, the film started its Festival run and I through myself into the next thing. Namely my business Evalution Media, which is going pretty well considering it’s only regular employee is my wonderful PA Lily. I applied for Access to Work during my over-extended production and spent the first 6 months of having it, wishing I’d applied for it before attempting to make a film! Lily helps me keep the social media alive, because I’m not the biggest fan of taking photos of myself and find it tricky to write in short snappy phrases! Also planning. I can’t just log on for an hour once a day and get everything done, it has to be when my brain is in the zone and I need the correct atmosphere and equipment around me. why do you think I’ve only just started writing this again!
Anyway, I hope that you enjoy any content I manage to add here and if I’m slacking, it doesn’t hurt to remind me to add posts in the comments ; )
Journey Through My Mind 
