Maverick Screenwriting: A Manual for the Adventurous Screenwriter

✍ Scribed by Josh Golding

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every film development executive says they're looking for original stories. Maverick Screenwriting will teach you how to play with advanced narrative techniques - time, logic and reality - that change the way we look at the world. Discover the techniques that give films like The Matrix, The Truman Show and Avatar an original twist.



You will learn:



the difference between plot-driven and concept-driven films
how to play with time, reality and point-of-view in radical ways
how to emotionally connect with your audience
how to create a 'Matrix' that will hold your story together
how to push your concept to the limit- how to tell a story that expresses the unique way you look at the world


In Maverick Screenwriting, writers, development executives, producers and directors will all find inspiration and new approaches that will help your film project stand out.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
1 Set-up and back story
Preface
Introduction
Foreword
Chapter 1: The prequel
Chapter 2: The big “what if?”
Chapter 3: The Maverick toolbox
2 Time
Chapter 4: Become your own timelord by playing with time and causality
3 Reality
Chapter 5: The different levels of reality
Chapter 6: Absurdism
Chapter 7: Minimalism
Chapter 8: You left my umbrella where?
4 Point of view
Chapter 9: POV to the max
5 Technique
Chapter 10: Break on through to the other side
Chapter 11: Maverick dialogue
6 Everything connects
Chapter 12: The matrix
Chapter 13: Taking it to the limit
7 Which structure is right for you?
Chapter 14: Mashing genre
Notes
Index
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