The last word : definitive answers to all your screenwriting questions /
Lazarus, Tom.
The last word : definitive answers to all your screenwriting questions / Tom Lazarus. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2012. - xiv, 258 p. ; 23 cm.
Machine generated contents note: TABLE OF CONTENTS -Introduction-Acknowledgments-'A' Story- Acts of God-Action- Adapting Novels- A Kick in the Ass Antagonists Appropriate Language Army Takes the Town Backstory Being a Screenwriter Be Specific bookends Calling Shots Camera GeographyCAPITALIZING CharacterCliches Coincidences and AccidentsComputers, Phone Calls and Letters Common Screenwriting Misteaks Communicating What You Want To Crank It Up!Default Positions as a Writer DescriptionDialogueDisclosure of Information Dreams Endings Establishing Scenes Exposition Every Scene Must Move The Story ForwardFlashbacks Format For God's Sake, Hurry! Genre ExpectationsGiving Script Notes How We Access Your Script How Long Should my Script Be?How Long Should My Scenes Be?Internal ProcessesIt's A ProcessIt's Not About Your WritingLet Your Actors Act Less is More Log Line and Scene ListsMain CharactersMetaphors and Similes MontagesMorris The Explainer Movie Recommendations My Script Feels Familiar -- What Do I do?NamesNarrative Pull Non-linear StorytellingNovelistic WritingOn The Nose Writing Open Story versus Closed Stories Overhearing Pace Parentheses Perfectionism PitchingBreaking News -- The Author PitchesPlay the Joke Positive Reinforcement Questions to Ask Resonance RewritingRhythms of Your ScriptRising Action Road Movies Rules Scene DescriptionScene List Scenes You Don't WriteScript Consultants Script Notes Sell itSet UpShocking!Showing Rather than Telling Slow Motion Smash Cut Speaking Out Loud Splintering Time Starting Your Screenplay FastStructure The Deal The Journey Theme The Scene -- Format Time ClocksTrailer ScenesTranscending Yourself TransitionsThree Act StructureTwists and Turns Urgency Voice OverVocabularyWeighting Your Writing We See, We Hear We Write Movies AboutWhat Do You Want Us To Feel?What Hooks Them?What Should You Be Writing AboutWriter's Block Writer's MantraWriting a Page TurnerWrong Words in Write PlacesPostscriptTom Lazarus -- Script ConsultantTom Lazarus Biography.
1615931198 (pbk.) 9781615931194 (pbk.)
2012016108
016099315 Uk
Motion picture authorship.
The last word : definitive answers to all your screenwriting questions / Tom Lazarus. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2012. - xiv, 258 p. ; 23 cm.
Machine generated contents note: TABLE OF CONTENTS -Introduction-Acknowledgments-'A' Story- Acts of God-Action- Adapting Novels- A Kick in the Ass Antagonists Appropriate Language Army Takes the Town Backstory Being a Screenwriter Be Specific bookends Calling Shots Camera GeographyCAPITALIZING CharacterCliches Coincidences and AccidentsComputers, Phone Calls and Letters Common Screenwriting Misteaks Communicating What You Want To Crank It Up!Default Positions as a Writer DescriptionDialogueDisclosure of Information Dreams Endings Establishing Scenes Exposition Every Scene Must Move The Story ForwardFlashbacks Format For God's Sake, Hurry! Genre ExpectationsGiving Script Notes How We Access Your Script How Long Should my Script Be?How Long Should My Scenes Be?Internal ProcessesIt's A ProcessIt's Not About Your WritingLet Your Actors Act Less is More Log Line and Scene ListsMain CharactersMetaphors and Similes MontagesMorris The Explainer Movie Recommendations My Script Feels Familiar -- What Do I do?NamesNarrative Pull Non-linear StorytellingNovelistic WritingOn The Nose Writing Open Story versus Closed Stories Overhearing Pace Parentheses Perfectionism PitchingBreaking News -- The Author PitchesPlay the Joke Positive Reinforcement Questions to Ask Resonance RewritingRhythms of Your ScriptRising Action Road Movies Rules Scene DescriptionScene List Scenes You Don't WriteScript Consultants Script Notes Sell itSet UpShocking!Showing Rather than Telling Slow Motion Smash Cut Speaking Out Loud Splintering Time Starting Your Screenplay FastStructure The Deal The Journey Theme The Scene -- Format Time ClocksTrailer ScenesTranscending Yourself TransitionsThree Act StructureTwists and Turns Urgency Voice OverVocabularyWeighting Your Writing We See, We Hear We Write Movies AboutWhat Do You Want Us To Feel?What Hooks Them?What Should You Be Writing AboutWriter's Block Writer's MantraWriting a Page TurnerWrong Words in Write PlacesPostscriptTom Lazarus -- Script ConsultantTom Lazarus Biography.
1615931198 (pbk.) 9781615931194 (pbk.)
2012016108
016099315 Uk
Motion picture authorship.