Rewrite: a step-by-step guide to strengthen structure, characters, and drama in your screenplay

✍ Scribed by Chitlik, Paul

• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Legendary screenwriting instructor and award-winning writer Paul Chitlik presents an easy-to-read, step-by-step process to take your script from first draft to
submission draft. He reveals the hidden structure of screenplays, sequences, and scenes, as he guides you through the process of examining your draft, restructuring it, and populating it with believable, complex, and compelling characters. Along the way he outlines how to make your action leap off the page and your dialogue crackle. While the first edition was widely used in film school rewriting classes, it was also recommended as an introduction to screenwriting craft by a number of professors and professionals. Paul Chitlik has included, for the second edition, more examples, exercises, and applications for television, the web, and other media, using a wide range of citations in film, television, and the Internet to underline his approach.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS --
Introduction --
Chapter 1 --
Clarifying Story and Structure for Impact --
Chapter 2 --
The Alternative Structure (Mythic Structure) --
Chapter 3 --
The Powerful Protagonist --
Chapter 4 --
The Central Emotional Relationship --
Chapter 5 --
The Worthy Antagonist --
Chapter 6 --
Ensuring Dynamic Scenes and Sequences --
Chapter 7 --
Dialogue: Text, Subtext, and No Text --
Chapter 8 --
Making Descriptions Leap off the Page --
Chapter 9 --
Life Support for Your Protagonist --
Chapter 10 --
Paring It Down --
Chapter 11 --
Where Am I? --
Chapter 12 --
The Right Look --
Chapter 13 --
Finishing --
Chapter 14 --
Applying Rewrite Techniques to Webisodes, Television, Comics, Graphic Novels, Games, and Other Media Yet to Be Discovered --
Appendices --
A -The seven points of Thelma and Louise. --
B --
The seven points of Ratatouille. --
C -The seven points, more or less, of Pirates of the Caribbean. --
D --
The beatsheet of In Good Company --
E -Alien Abduction --
the first sequence and how it developed. --
Bibliography --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Language;Writing;Nonfiction;Culture;Film;Reference