Prewriting your screenplay : a step-by-step guide to generating stories / by Michael Tabb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabb, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Motion picture authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Summary:

Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story’s foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time, building and incorporating each element into the whole.The book provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct that story base around concepts as individual as the writer’s personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer’s voice. It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay. This is the quintessential book for all writers taking their first steps towards developing a screenplay from nothing, getting them over that first monumental hump, resulting in a well-formulated story conceptthat is cohesive and professional.

Contents:

part, Act 1 Story origins

chapter 1 Premise

chapter 2 Genre

chapter 3 The brainstorm

part, Act 2 Character creation

chapter 4 Character development

chapter 5 Protagonist

chapter 6 Antagonist

chapter 7 Can the protagonist be the antagonist?

chapter 8 Love interests

chapter 9 Mentor

chapter 10 Dual mentors

chapter 11 Allies

chapter 12 Final reflections on characters

part, Act 3 Culmination

chapter 13 Some assembly required

chapter 14 From concept to story

chapter 15 Loglines

chapter 16 Three-act structure

chapter 17 Reverse engineering from plot to premise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-05825-8

1-351-05827-4

1-351-05826-6

9781351058278

OCLC:

1045480502