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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
