Notes to Screenwriters

Name: Notes to Screenwriters | Advancing Your Story, Screenplay, and Career With Whatever Hollywood Throws at You
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Advancing Your Story, Screenplay, and Career With Whatever Hollywood Throws at You

Barbara Nicolosi Vicki Peterson(Autor*in)

Michael Wiese Productions (Verlag)

Erschienen am 1. Januar 2015

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Intro
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Foreword by David McFadzean
Introduction: The Book That Notes Built
Section I: Broad Notes
Chapter 1: Notes on Taking Notes
Chapter 2: Notes on the Storyteller
a. Are You Good Enough?
b. Can You "Go There"?
c. Respecting Your Voice
d. Your Passion Project
e. The Essential Skills of Storytelling and Screenwriting
f. Finding Your Voice: An Exercise
Chapter 3: Notes on Story
a. A Story Is Better Than the Real
b. Story Has a Nature
c. Movie Stories Have a Special Nature
d. A Story Has to Matter
e. "High Stakes" Mean Death
f. Meeting the Audience's Needs
g. The Catharsis of Compassion and the Fear of Evil
h. Things Story is NOT
i. Exercises for Crafting Your Story
Chapter 4: Arena Notes: A World to Explore
a. Arena Exercises
Chapter 5: Notes on Character: The Lovable Paradox
a. Qualities of a Relatable Character (Adapted from Aristotle's Poetics)
b. Character Versus Characterization
c. What Do They Want? What Do They Need?
d. Backstory: How Did They Get Here?
e. Finding the Haunting Paradox
f. Character Exercises
Chapter 6: Notes on Dialogue: Better Than Real Speech
a. Dialogue Is Designed to Be Heard
b. Dialogue Is Designed for Actors to Play
c. Dialogue Has a Momentum
d. Dialogue as a Voice of Authority
e. Dialogue Utilizes Metaphors
f. Dialogue Utilizes Subtext
g. Dialogue Exists to Process Conflict
h. Dialogue-Writing Tips and Exercises
Chapter 7: Notes on Theme: The Good, The Great, and The Ugly
a. Theme Is a Thesis
b. Exercises to Strengthen Your Theme
Chapter 8: Notes on Tone and Genre: Getting on the Same Page
a. Genre Is What We Feel
b. Tone Is the Rhythm of Your Story
c. Tone and Genre Exercises
Chapter 9: Spectacle as the Servant of All
a. Spectacle Exercise
Chapter 10: Structure Notes: How You Reveal the Plot
a. Act One: The Beginning
b. Act Two: The Middle
c. Act Three: The End
d. The Beauty of the Beat
e. Scene Structure: The Building Blocks of Your Story
f. Structure Exercises
Chapter 11: Cinematic Notes: Does It Have To Be A Movie?
a. A Movie Is a Harmony of Elements
b. Moving Through Time and Place: Transitions
c. Layering In the Meaning
d. Death by Visual Cliché
e. Cinematic Exercises
Chapter 12: Section Summary: The Biggest Mistakes New Screenwriters Make
Section II: Line Notes: Screenplay Style and Grammar
Chapter 13: Formatting Matters
Chapter 14: Rules of Screenplay Style
Chapter 15: Some Additional Formatting Do's and Don'ts
Chapter 16: Section Summary: Formatting Red Flags That Will Stop Your Screenplay
Section III: The Working Screenwriter
Chapter 17: So Now What?
Chapter 18: Rewriting
Chapter 19: Story Currency: Loglines, Synopses, Proposals, Beat Sheets, and Treatments
a. A Penny of Your Thoughts: Loglines
b. Putting Your Two Cents In: A Story Synopsis
c. About a Fiver: Story Proposals
d. About the Cost of Dinner and a Movie: The Beat Sheet
e. Talking Real Money: The Treatment
Chapter 20: The Writer's Real Life
Chapter 21: Working With A Writing Partner
Chapter 22: Working With Producers
a. How Does a Writer Meet Producers?
b. How to Know If a Producer Is a Good Fit for You
c. Parameters of a Working Relationship
Chapter 23: Studio Vs. Indie: Where Does Your Project Fit?
Chapter 24: Networking
Chapter 25: Success
Chapter 26: Faqs About the Business
Chapter 27: Section Summary: Rules for Professional Screenwriters
Appendix A: The 100 Most Influential Movies Ever Made
Appendix B: Correctly Formatted Title Page
Appendix C: Correctly Formatted First Page
Appendix D: Correctly Formatted Interior Page
Bibliography
About the Authors

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