| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index. |
| Contents |
Part, Act 1 Story origins -- chapter 1 Premise -- chapter 2 Genre -- chapter 3 The brainstorm -- part, Act 2 Character creation -- chapter 4 Character development -- chapter 5 Protagonist -- chapter 6 Antagonist -- chapter 7 Can the protagonist be the antagonist? -- chapter 8 Love interests -- chapter 9 Mentor -- chapter 10 Dual mentors -- chapter 11 Allies -- chapter 12 Final reflections on characters -- part, Act 3 Culmination -- chapter 13 Some assembly required -- chapter 14 From concept to story -- chapter 15 Loglines -- chapter 16 Three-act structure -- chapter 17 Reverse engineering from plot to premise. |
| Summary |
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 conceptthat is cohesive and professional. |
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Motion picture authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Cinéma -- Art d'écrire -- Guides, manuels, etc. |
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Motion picture authorship |
| Genre |
Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prewriting your screenplay London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. 9781138482289 (hardback) (DLC) 2018009018 |
| ISBN |
9781351058254 ebook |
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1351058258 |
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9781351058278 ebk. |
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1351058274 |
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hardback |
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pbk. |
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