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Writing the short film / Pat Cooper and Ken Dancyger.
LIBRA PN1996 .C814 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture authorship.
- Short films.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Focal Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Novice screenwriters can follow the storytelling process--from conception to dramatization to dialogue--and learn how to create a dramatic narrative that is short and complete.
- Contents:
- Part I Fundamentals: Breaking Ground 9
- Chapter 1 Storytelling In General 11
- Chapter 2 Telling A Story In Images 19
- Chapter 3 Using Sound To Tell The Story 31
- Chapter 4 Discovering And Exploring A Main Character 41
- Chapter 5 Telling The Dramatic Story 51
- Chapter 6 Writing An Original Short Screenplay 67
- Part II Moving Forward: Writing Strategies 81
- Chapter 7 Storytelling Strategies 83
- Chapter 8 Visualization Strategies 99
- Chapter 9 Dramatic Strategies 111
- Chapter 10 Characterization Strategies 125
- Chapter 11 Dialogue Strategies 139
- Part III Genres: Forming the Story 149
- Chapter 12 The Melodrama 151
- Chapter 13 The Docudrama 171
- Chapter 14 The Hyperdrama 187
- Chapter 15 The Experimental Drama 205
- Appendix Short Screenplays 223
- Another Story / Lisa Wood Shapiro 225
- The Lady in Waiting / Christian Taylor 234
- Sleeping Beauties / Karyn Kusama 256
- The Wounding / Susan Emerling 265
- Dead Letters Don't Lie / Anais Granofsky, Michael Swanhaus 277.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0240803698
- OCLC:
- 41176712
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