The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script - Couverture souple

Mercurio, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1610353307 ISBN 13 : 9781610353304

Editeur : Linden Publishing Co Inc, 2019

Synopsis

No one comes out of a movie talking about script structure. What audiences love and remember about a movie are great scenes, the meaningful moments in a film that reveal character and emotion. While previous screenwriting guides emphasize story structure at the macro level, this is the first book for screenwriters that focuses entirely on the micro level of writing powerful scenes. Story structure alone does not make a successful screenplay; it is the detailed craftwork of scene writing that breathes life into a story.In The Craft of Scene Writing, accomplished screenwriter and master writing teacher Jim Mercurio explains the nuts and bolts of how to write emotionally resonant scenes that will elevate a script from ho-hum to extraordinary. The Craft of Scene Writing analyzes and systematises the individual elements that create dynamic scenes: beats, conflicts, character moments, specific actions and lines of dialogue. Mercurio demonstrates that every single scene in a script needs to be a story in itself that creates a surprise or reversal. And when a scene incorporates both a twist in the plot and a change in the characters internal states, it has the greatest potential to profoundly engage an audience. The Craft of Scene Writing cites specific examples from popular classic scripts, old and new, to show how great scenes reveal character and advance the story. The Craft of Scene Writing also gives readers practical tools to immediately improve their scenes and scripts. Writing amazing scenes will not just make a screenplay a better work of art. Great scenes also make a script more attractive to producers, directors and actors -- making a script more likely to sell. An incredibly detailed exploration of screenwriting technique, this book will help beginning writers to write great scripts and experienced writers to gain a more complete mastery of their craft.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Mercurio is a writer, author, screenwriter and filmmaker. He has directed or produced five feature films and has helped countless writers as a teacher, story analyst and script doctor. Mercurio is a former development executive, and has sold or written as work-for-hire several screenplays. He wrote and directed the bonus material for the film Making Hard Scrambled Movies--a two-hour seminar on making indie films--which The Washington Post called "a must for would-be filmmakers." Creative Screenwriting magazine ranked him as one of the top screenplay consultants in the country. Mercurio divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Linden Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610353307
• ISBN 13: 9781610353304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible