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Name: Cool Million | How to Become a Million-Dollar Screenwriter
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How to Become a Million-Dollar Screenwriter

Sheldon Woodbury(Autor*in)

M Evans & Company (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 20. Januar 2004

244 Seiten

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How This Book Works
The Screenwriters
Imagine This
Part 1: It all Starts with a Big Idea
Chapter 1: That's a Lot of Money-Who are these People?
The Blockbuster Screenplay
Two Kinds of Million Dollar Screenwriters
Why They're Paid the Big Bucks
Chapter 2: Blockbuster Movies are Big in Every way
Million Dollar Screenplays Start with a Big Idea
Chapter 3: Begin By Looking in your Heart
Big Ideas Come From the Heart
The Writer's Journal
Ask Yourself Questions
Chapter 4: Train your Mind to Think Big
The Two Worlds of a Writer
The World we Live in
The World of Stories
Chapter 5: Imagination is your Biggest Creative Tool
Unleash your Imagination
Think Outside the Box
Part 2: What you Need to know about the Audience
Chapter 6: Writing for a Big Audience
Blockbuster Movies are Intense
Audiences want to be Emotionally Charged
The Mind and the Imagination are Good, too
Other Audience Considerations
Chapter 7: The Audience Loves Heroes
Creating a Blockbuster Main Character
Blockbuster Characters Can Come in Any Package
Chapter 8: Blockbuster Stories go Places
The Journey Story Structure
The Journey has Spectacle
The Journey is Spiritual
Part 3: Writing a Million Dollar Screenplay
Chapter 9: Start with a Big Idea and Build
Creating a Story
Story Preparation
Chapter 10: Blockbuster Screenplays are Built to Thrill
Three-Act Dramatic Structure
Blockbuster Three-Act Structure
Chapter 11: You have to Work Hard and Play Hard
Start with an Outline
Choose your Writing Weapon
Writers Write
Control what you can
Chapter 12: Blockbuster Writing Style
Screenplay Format
Get Inside their Heads
A Great Writing Style Makes you Unique
Chapter 13: The Bullet-Proof Screenplay
Your Screenplay should Sell Itself
How to Make your Screenplay Bullet-Proof
Part 4: What you Need to know about Hollywood
Chapter 14: Writing for Hollywood
Movies are Collaborative
The Power of Screenwriters
The Screenwriter's Goal
Pitching your Screenplay
Chapter 15: Tactics and Strategies
You have to Produce your Career
The Self-Starter Strategy
Contests, Fellowships, Festivals, Events
Moving to Los Angeles
Chapter 16: Agents Need you as Much as you Need them
What Agents do
What Agents want
How Agents Judge New Clients
Agents Help those who Help themselves
Choosing the Right Agency
Finding an Agent
Making Contact with an Agent
Chapter 17: Readers and Development Executives Need Love
First You Make Love to a Reader
Development Executives Need Love, Too
Chapter 18: Studio Executives have to Hit It Big
It's a Big Job Because of Big Decisions
They Bought it Once, so they'll buy it Again
In the Hollywood Movie Game, be a Player
Chapter 19: How to think Like a Hollywood Screenwriter
Study what Hollywood is Buying
Stay Up-to-Date on Screenwriting
Chapter 20: More Tactics and Strategies
Go Directly to the Movie-Makers
Fight the Good Fight
A Blockbuster Life
Afterword
Recommended Reading
About the Author
Index

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