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  Part I - Getting Started

Forming the idea into a dramatic entity with beginning, middle and end:

• Isolating the idea

• Creating the subject

• Breaking it down into action and character

• The nature of screenplay structure

• Structuring your story line

• Writing the four-page treatment

Part II - Creating Character

The heart, soul and nervous system of your screenplay:

• What makes a good character

• The essence of dramatic need

• Creating the character biography

• The tools of character

• The circle of being

Part III - Writing The Screenplay

Here's what we do and how we do it:

• Set up the story

• Write the story

• Structure the screenplay into acts

• Stress the importance of the first ten pages

• Determine the plot points

• Set up and prepare Act II

• Establish Pinch I and Pinch II

• Establish the sub-dramatic context

Part IV - Rewriting the Screenplay

All writing is rewriting:

• Approaching the rewrite

• Rethinking what you have written

• Redefining and re-establishing the theme, premise, and dramatic action

• The tools of rewriting

• Discovering character through action

• Sharpening and focusing character

• Setting up and paying off the elements of the story line

 
 

 

 

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