Jeffrey Michael Bays
Jeffrey Michael Bays is a contributor to MovieMaker Magazine, Peter Marshall's Directors Chair, and is best known for writing and producing the award-winning radio satire Not From Space (2003) on XM Satellite Radio. This pioneering audio production was recently listed by Time Out magazine as among the top five essential radio plays of all time.
Jeffrey was born and raised in mid-Missouri to parents from the US Navy. Being from the Midwest gives him a homespun sense of humor that permeates all of his creative endeavors, but at the same time a pioneering drive to reach beyond and find new ideas to explore.
After the first XM Radio broadcast, he journeyed to Australia to make his first feature film, Offing David. It was this homage to Alfred Hitchcock which inadvertently launched Jeffrey as an expert on Hitchcock cinematic techniques, creating the world's foremost website on the subject. Jeffrey holds an MA in Cinema from La Trobe University in Melbourne.
The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style (3rd Ed)
Bulletproof: Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down
Transitions: A Director’s Journey and Motivational Handbook
John Badham On Directing: Notes from the Set of Saturday Night Fever, War Games, and More (2nd Edition)
Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience
The Writer's Journey - 25th Anniversary Edition: Mythic Structure for Writers
You Talkin' to Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue
First Time Director: How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie
The Comic Hero's Journey: Serious Story Structure for Fabulously Funny Films
Film Directing: Cinematic Motion (2nd Edition)
The Writers’ Room Survival Guide: Don’t Screw Up The Lunch Order and Other Keys to a Happy Writers’ Room