Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!)

2015-08-07
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!)
Author: Alexandra Sokoloff
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08-07
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9781508511373
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"Are you finally committed to writing that novel or screenplay, but have no idea how to get started? Or are you a published author, but know you need some plotting help to move your books and career up to that next level? In this workbook, award-winning author/screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff will show you how to jump-start your plot and bring your characters and scenes vibrantly alive on the page by watching your favorite movies and learning from the storytelling tricks of great filmmakers."--Page 4 of cover.

Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade

1992
Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade
Author: William Froug
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:
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Unlocks the mysteries of commercially successful screen drama.

How to Write a Selling Screenplay

1998
How to Write a Selling Screenplay
Author: Christopher Keane
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0767900715
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Covers the basics of scriptwriting, from deciding on a story and characters through the finished work, and analyzes a sample script

Save the Cat!

2005
Save the Cat!
Author: Blake Snyder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781615931712
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This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Turn & Burn

2022-01-06
Turn & Burn
Author: Cj Walley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910515860
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The Turn & Burn methodology offers practical, real-world advice for quickly turning stories - within any genre - into engaging and authentic movie scripts.

Secret Weapons

2018-01-02
Secret Weapons
Author: Eric Heisserer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9781682152294
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Eric Heisserer - the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of ARRIVAL and Valiant's upcoming HARBINGER and BLOODSHOT feature films - joins Harvey Award-nominated visionary Raúl Allén (Wrath of the Eternal Warrior) for an all-new Valiant adventure...launching Livewire and an extraordinary new team of heroes into the fight of their lives! The government has dispatched Amanda McKee - the technopath codenamed Livewire - to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated many potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value to his cause, were hidden away at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada's greatest strengths and learned his deepest weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure. A young girl who can talk to birds... A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow... To others, these are expensive disappointments. But, to Livewire, they are secret weapons...in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rex-O seeks to draw them out, Livewire and her new team of cadets will be forced to put their powers into action...in ways they never could have imagined...

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films

2021-11-29
Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films
Author: David J Greenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000508900
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Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience, case studies from films such as Primer, Coherence and Reservoir Dogs, as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry, Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects, such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative, allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters, independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting.

Crafty Screenwriting

2002-10-08
Crafty Screenwriting
Author: Alex Epstein
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2002-10-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1466824727
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The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made. Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not only to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the trade, but to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that the "dialogue is flat," or "the hero isn't likeable." Fresh, provocative, and funny, Alex Epstein diagnoses problem that other screenwriting books barely address, and answers questions they rarely ask, like "Why is it sometimes dangerous to know your characters too well before you start writing," or "Why does your script have to be so much better than the awful pictures that get made every day?" As a development executive who has accepted and rejected countless screenplays, and a produced screenwriter himself, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most important question of all: "Is this a movie?" A crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes to get their movie made.

Prewriting Your Screenplay

2018-07-16
Prewriting Your Screenplay
Author: Michael Tabb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-07-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351058258
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Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story’s foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time, building and incorporating each element into the whole. The book provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct that story base around concepts as individual as the writer’s personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer’s voice. It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay. This is the quintessential book for all writers taking their first steps towards developing a screenplay from nothing, getting them over that first monumental hump, resulting in a well-formulated story concept that is cohesive and professional.