Screenwriting is Rewriting

Name: Screenwriting is Rewriting | The Art and Craft of Professional Revision
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The Art and Craft of Professional Revision

Jack Epps, Jr.(Autor*in)

Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 28. Januar 2016

272 Seiten

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If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy, and The Secret of My Success, comes a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting.

In Screenwriting is Rewriting, Epps provides a practical and tested approach to organizing notes, creating a game plan, and executing a series of focused passes that address the story, character, theme, structure, and plot issues. Included are sample notes, game plans, and beat sheets from Epps' work on films such as Sister Act and Turner and Hooch. Also featured are exclusive interviews with Academy Award (R) winning screenwriters Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon), along with Academy Award (R) nominee Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich).

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The book is a great starting point that would teach aspiring screenwriters or students of creative writing how to go about starting, developing and rewriting their screenplays. * Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media * And just when we thought we didn't need another book about screenwriting along comes this one, which in short order makes itself a must-have. Jack Epps is a great writer, a master teacher, as smart about character as he is about structure. He's distilled this part of our craft to its essence, and by heeding his book's fine wisdom we will all of us become better rewriters-and better writers. * Howard A. Rodman, Screenwriter and President of the Writer's Guild of America, We * Never in the history of Hollywood has a screenwriter heard the words: 'It's perfect; don't change a thing.' Even if someone were to say that, we know better and would change it anyway, and change it again, and again, and again. This book teaches the why and the how of rewriting and is written by a real, live, honest-to-God professional screenwriter who has successfully had many of his scripts made into movies. * Stephen Sommers, Writer and Director of The Jungle Book (1994), The Mummy (1999), and Van Helsing (2004) * An exemplary text on screenplay writing. Drawing from both his professional and academic experiences, Jack Epps, Jr. provides an excellent distillation of ideal screenwriting practice, creating an indispensable resource for both students and self-taught screenwriters. * David Dunn, Principal Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, University of Southampton, UK *

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Inhalt

Introduction

How To Use This Book

Let's Talk About Rewriting

The Pass Method - Layer By Layer

Movies You Need To See

Part One: Foundations and Fundamentals

Chapter 1 Notes - Receiving and Organizing Notes

Chapter 2 Interpreting Notes - Reading Tea Leaves

Chapter 3 Annotated Draft - Your Reference Guide

Chapter 4 Game Plan - Creating a Road Map for the Rewrite

Chapter 5 Character - Writing from the Inside Out

Chapter 6 Foundation Pass - Strengthening the Core

Chapter 7 Character Pass - The Emotional Core

Chapter 8 The Set-Up - Establish - Complicate - Resolve

Chapter 9 Story & Theme Pass - The Emotional Underpinning

Chapter 10 Structure - What Stays In, What Goes Out, and In What Order

Chapter 11 Structure Pass - Architecture and Design

Chapter 12 Plot - How Will This Turn Out?

Chapter 13 Plot Pass - Cause and Effect

Chapter 14 Feedback on Your Interim Draft - Checking-In

Part Two: Details and Layering

Chapter 15 Opposition Characters - Sources of Conflict and Tension

Chapter 16 Obstacles, Complications, Reveals, and Reversals - Complicate, Complicate, Complicate

Chapter 17 Obstacles, Complications, Reveals, and Reversals Pass - Making Life Much More Difficult

Chapter 18 Relationships - The Ties that Bind

Chapter 19 Relationship Pass - Interconnecting

Chapter 20 Dialogue - Rhythm and Flow

Chapter 21 Scene Pass - Link and Connect

Chapter 22 Consistency Pass - Motivated Actions

Chapter 23 Polish Pass - Dialogue, Text, and Tightening

Chapter 24 Sending Out Your Screenplay - Letting Go

Chapter 25 Working with Directors, Producers, and Executives - Patience, Patience, Patience

Part Three: Screenwriters on Rewriting

Interview with Robert Towne Chinatown, The Firm, Mission Impossible II

Interview with Frank Pierson Cool Hand Luke, Dog Day Afternoon, King Of The Gypsies

Interview with Susannah Grant Pocahontas, Erin Brockovich, The Soloist

Part Four: Examples

Studio Script Notes Turner & Hooch Notes Sister Act Studio Notes and Game Plan

Student Annotated Pages Suicide Girl by Ivy Pruss

Student Script Notes & Game Plans Take Your Grandma To Work Day by David Ngo F@#% The Knot by Romi Barta

Essential Three Act Questions

Acknowledgements

Quote Sources

Index

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