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The creative screenwriter : exercises to expand your craft /
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
A. & C. Black,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Being creative; What does creativity mean to you?; Ready, steady, go!; Limiting yourself; Magic moments; Wordplay; ABC stories; Spontaneous storytelling; Listening to an onion; Having fun!; Being bad; 2 Generating ideas; Going to the heart; Finding the plot, finding the emotion; Into the unknown; What's around you?; Creative collisions; Bringing people together; What do you know? What don't you know?; Words of wisdom; Trading places; In the news; The hardest choice; Perfect fit; 3 Developing stories; Growing up; Finding your compass
- Assessing story potentialWhat's the problem?; Dot to dot; Conflict vs meaningful conflict; What happens next?; One thing leads to another; Back to the future; Losing the plot; 4 Understanding characters; Pinpointing the protagonist; Supermarket sweep; Character building; A creative portrait; Inside out; What's in a name?; Stepping into change; Lost baggage; Motivating action; Public and private spheres; 5 Shaping relationships; The odd couple; Finding the right antagonist; Antagonist as thematic driver; The third party; Weaving webs; Family values; A matter of perspective
- Generating perspectiveListening out for relationships; Ensembles; Absent friends; 6 Designing structure; Structuring the emotional journey; Character arc as structure; Chain reaction; Inciting incidents; All change; Planning the plan; Deepening the problem; Rising action; Making things worse; Plants and payoffs; Tying-up loose ends; 7 Reimagining structure; Alternative routes; Where are you going?; Multiple protagonists; Parallel stories; Mix it up; Flashing back; Telling the time; Shapeshifting; 8 Defining beginnings and endings; Starting over; Setting the dramatic question
- Image is everythingFirst impressions; Pain and problems; Essential facts; Opening with voiceover; Full stop; Last dance; Mirror, mirror; One step beyond; Damp squib; 9 Weaving worlds; Reframing the familiar; Beyond the sea; Television set; Outside the comfort zone; A whole new world; Playing by the rules; Opening doors; Bricks and mortar; When are we?; Inner worlds; A common language; Location, location, location; 10 Exploring genre and form; Themes and dreams; Genre protagonists; Home sweet home; Fitting the bill; Mix and match; Setting the mood; It's no joke; Finding form
- 11 Enhancing scene writingFulfilling the function; The telling moment; The deciding factor; Scene structure; Turn up the heat; Complicating factors; Topping and tailing; Crossing over; Catching up; 12 Strengthening visual storytelling; Doing, not being; Walk the talk; Swap shop; Valued objects; Say what you see; Trading spaces; Imprisoned; I spy; Compare and contrast; Visual pleasure; Sound and vision; Seen and not heard; Show, don't tell; 13 Improving dialogue; Through their eyes; Guess who; Speaking relations; Silent talk; Lying and denying; Writing subtext; Key phrase
- Exposition
- creating a need to know