Classes A-List Screenwriting: The Lecture – Stand-alone two-day weekend class offered in several cities nationwide that focuses on story and scene structure; film analysis; and craft principles from A to Z. Sign up now for Washington, D.C.'s class, being held this coming April 25 and 26! Click here for more details. Testimonials Wayne Chiang,1999 StarCraft World Champion - “Having been world-class in another field, I know it when I see it: Jim's mentoring is world-class.” Interviews Excerpt from Killer Screenwriting Interview by Jim Cirile - “The thing that impresses me about Mercurio is not so much his encyclopedic knowledge of movie structure, which is amazing enough, but his uncanny facility with character. This man makes me seriously up my game in terms of thinking about my characters as real, dimensional people, not just automatons serving the needs of the plot. ” Read more. Articles The Good, the Bad and the Final Polish - The best-selling book details how humans have an amazing ability to “thin-slice,” to discern a surprisingly large amount of information from the first split-second they see something. Well, the rabble-rouser that I am, I tell these guys that this concept applies to screenplays. I say that 99% of the time you can tell a bad script/storyteller from the first page. Read more. Video Clips Hard Scrambled Filmmaking: Editing - Producer Jim Mercurio discusses editing techniques you can use in making your own feature film. Uses scenes and footage from the independent feature film Hard Scrambled. View clip.