@matcooperdirector.bsky.social
Director of UK comedy feature 'Sober'. Four x micro budget horror features on YouTube. BAFTA shortlisted/RTS nominated scriptwriter for UK TV. Interested in AI generative video, Leeds Utd, retro horror, super 8mm and everything cinema. matcoop.co.uk
Writer for hire! I’m available to help polish up scripts (Edinburgh on the horizon); Make your wedding speech amazing or consult on a writing project you’re working on. 30 years experience working in the telly, radio, journalism, advertising - my website www.mathew-owen.co.uk Please share! 👍👍
26.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 62 🔁 129 💬 0 📌 8
The difference between a script written by the scriptwriter and a shooting script...
SCRIPT FORMATTING AND SCRIPT WRITING STYLE – why sparse scripts and blank space are you friend.
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#scriptwriting #screenwriting
FREE SCRIPTWRITING LESSON - The first rule of scriptwriting is SHOW – DON’T TELL. And most new scriptwriters think they understand that rule but do not.
In this blogpost I can teach most people the difference between SHOW and TELL in less than 15 mins...
tinyurl.com/5n855yzs
Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA.
Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passé 🤷♀️
DAY 2 of Script Report and Coverage Awareness Week Today's Blog is JAM PACKED WITH HELP AND ADVICE FOR NEW #scriptwriters WITH Lessons from Jimmy McGovern and how to spot ‘on the nose’ dialogue…
www.matcoop.co.uk/script-cover...
www.matcoop.co.uk/script-cover...
Did you know there are only ever 300 full time employed working #scriptwriters in the UK?
Did you know that the late Tom Stoppard often wrote Peak Practice under a fake name.
Did you know that Russell T Davies started his career writing for the Chuckle Brothers?
You can trust me - I'm a Doctor - well a Script Doctor at least...(this is a bit of fun, but with a deep serious message)
youtu.be/-PjoPmKB2T0?...
Script report awareness week 2026
I'm going to be a lot more active on here next week as I'm running SCRAW 2026 - which is: Script Report and Coverage Awareness Week - a five day social media campaign promoting the usefulness of good qualified script reports / coverage #scriptwriters #scriptwriting
www.matcoop.co.uk/scraw-week-2...
If you're constantly hitting refresh on your BBC Writers entry - do yourself a favour and read the below - get yourself a proper script report in the meantime as this waiting will go on for another two to three months...
www.matcoop.co.uk/are-you-wait...
I haven't logged into this app for ages - come back and I've got near 400 followers or whatever peeps are called on here.
Thank you - I shall start posting more regularly on here as nearly everywhere else is now fire a pigsty.
I’d do a Crowdfunder but that’d be taking the piss.
12.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
12.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 165 🔁 369 💬 3 📌 13@therealsnicks.bsky.social in his younger, pool hall days. @morganruble.bsky.social @cmr2.bsky.social @axfrommn.bsky.social @ashcampion.bsky.social @edkennedy.bsky.social @tvdean.bsky.social @cosmiclad.bsky.social
28.09.2025 19:22 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Tylenol began to take hold’
23.09.2025 06:48 — 👍 226 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 8
New #scriptwriters - BBC Writersroom Open Call for 2025 will be opening soon - BEFORE YOU SUBMIT make sure to get help / advice and a proper script report on your work by a script consultant with pro credits. Slots filling up fast - get in touch now!
www.matcoop.co.uk/script-consu...
Two men in the darkening dusk seaside beside a lit up phone box in Local Hero (1983)
Frame of the Day
19.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 45 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
“Stick a pony in me pocket
I'll fetch the suitcase from the van
'Cause if you want the best ones
But you don't ask questions
Then brother, I'm your man”
Gail, Matt and Brenda wearing sun hats and sunglasses pose for a selfie outdoors near a stone building and trees on a sunny day.
I’m back from my break to Croatia.
My shop is open for all your retro design needs.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
My website homepage with a notice at the top saying, "Visitors to your site decreased by 30% in the last 30 days."
Well this is a bit depressing.
It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me.
Please have a look and repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Neil Young "Mirror Ball" CD
#1995AlbumsTop20
#5 - Neil Young "Mirror Ball"
"I'm the Ocean"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvD0...
It’s World Goth Day.
Here we see the essential difference between the American & English mindset.
Unboxing my Merch Market prints.
Find me at Merch Market in Manchester on Sunday.
I’ll be at Gorilla with my talented mate @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social
The prints are exclusive and are limited edition.
watsn.social/themerchmarket
RIP Robert Benton, on the set of his directorial debut, BAD COMPANY (1972), with star Jeff Bridges. We're proud to represent Benton in the FCE catalog with BAD COMPANY, as fine a debut as any in the American New Wave. Barry Brown's character is based on Benton & Bridges' on co-writer David Newman.
13.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 65 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 3
Talking Heads (Earth-2)
14.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 110 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2
Gail Myerscough’ website homepage. Features a modern room with framed music illustrations.
I’ve revamped my website and I’d appreciate it if you could have a look and let me know what you think.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks
Rave reviews for 'SOBER' our little £7k feature film in yesterdays Yorkshire Evening Post!
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Thanks x
19.04.2025 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SOBER picked up over 4.3K views overnight - really delighted for Mat @matcooperdirector.bsky.social and all involved.
If you haven't seen it yet do go and take a look - it's fab.
#scriptsky
Reupping this because you really *should* go check out @matcooperdirector.bsky.social's SOBER!
#scriptsky
It's a gem!
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