Sixteen Weeks to Fade Out
eBook - ePub

Sixteen Weeks to Fade Out

A Practical Guide to Screenwriting

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sixteen Weeks to Fade Out

A Practical Guide to Screenwriting

About this book

This is a comprehensive guide to writing the first draft of a feature length screenplay. While it focuses on the college semester (16 Weeks), it is also completely appropriate for anyone attempting to write a screenplay within a timeline. The text breaks down different approaches to designing a screenplay by providing pragmatic guidelines enhancing your ability to use creativity rather than focusing on rules. It highlights the skills necessary to execute compelling visual language to achieve good story, plot, dialog, dynamic characters, and help you put it all together. Think of this as a companion tool as you write. The language is simplified and yet academic, theoretically sound and yet pragmatic. It also offers additional insight into the history of screenwriting, the re-write process, and the specific skill sets needed for adaptation.

This book is easy to understand and provides accounts for context from the author as a professional screenwriter, as well as anecdotes from other professionals (David Mickey Evans – The Sand Lot, and Vince McKewin – Fly Away Home, and Jeb Stuart – Die Hard, The Fugitive, Dana Coen – JAG, NCIS, and Anthony Tambakis — Warrior, Suicide Squad 2).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. INTRODUCTION FADE IN.
  8. History of Screenwriting
  9. Weeks 1–2: Story, Plot, and Premise
  10. Weeks 3–4: Organizing Creativity
  11. Weeks 5–6: A Study of Structure in Three Acts
  12. Weeks 7–8: Character, Part I (Intimacy)
  13. Weeks 9–10: Character, Part II (Functions)
  14. Weeks 11–12: Dialog
  15. Weeks 13–14: Rewriting
  16. Weeks 15–16: Final Submission
  17. Adaptation
  18. Answers to Exercises