Title:
Get your story straight : a step-by-step guide to screenwriting by a million-dollar screenwriter / by Diane Drake.
Author:
Drake, Diane (Screenwriter), author.
Publication Information:
Middletown, Delaware : Diane Drake, 2016
©2016
Call Number:
PN1996 .D722 2016
Abstract:
In this step-by-step guide, you'll learn: Essential elements and principles of screenwriting with examples from popular films; keys to creating a hero your audience will really care about; how to structure your story into three compelling acts; The secret to making your scenes and story build as they progress; insider tips on the business of showbiz and how best to try to break in; how to keep going when the muse is fickle, and much more.
Edition:
First print edition.
ISBN:
9780692640364
Physical Description:
239 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Why write? -- What movies are really about : and the moral to (almost) every story -- What's the big idea? : finding your concept -- Creating a log line -- Structuring your story into three acts ; (Spoiler : "It helps if you have a plot") -- Structurally speaking : Tootsie -- Beginnings : Act I, or the set-up -- Structurally speaking : Toy story -- Middles : Act II, or Murphy's law -- Structurally speaking : The 40-year-old virgin -- Act III : Endings, or else... -- Structurally speaking : Argo --Building character(s) part one : heroes -- Structurally speaking : Iron Man -- Building character(s) part two : villians, co-stars and everybody else -- Structurally speaking : Little Miss Sunshine -- Writing the scene -- Structurally speaking : Thelma & Louise -- Putting words in their mouths : dialogue -- Structurally speaking : The King's speech -- The business of showbiz, part one & how to win an Oscar -- Structurally speaking : Roman holiday -- The business of showbiz, part two -- Structurally speaking : Sideways -- On being a "content creator" -- Acknowledgments.
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