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Master Shots Vol 2 - Softcover Edition |
"Building on the success of the best-selling first volume, Master Shots, Vol. 2 goes much deeper, revealing the great directors ™ secrets for giving life to the standard dialogue scene. Referencing popular films, these techniques help you set up your camera and actors to give your dialogue scenes better drama, clarity, and energy, whatever your budget."
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Story Physics - Ebook (Pdf) |
"You'll Love This Book If: You have read Story Engineering Your story needs improvement You are looking for ways to connect the six core competencies to story physics In order to make your story shine and engage your readers, it's important to have a deep understanding of storytelling. Larry Brooks's newest book, Story Physics helps writers gain that understanding from concept to application. Using his theory of the six core competencies of storytelling from his bestselling book Story Engineering as a starting point, Story Physics gives writers tools for story development that delve into the mindset, skills and strategic thinking needed to make a story effective and competitive in the market place. A Word From the Author: Some writers develop stories in a complete vacuum, in context to nothing ""no principles, no expectations. They just sit down and spill it onto the page. (I ™ve seen writing teachers who advocate this as a process, but they need to add that once "
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - David Goyer - Download |
"What can't be taught to screenwriters? Tenacity and having a hard skin. -David Goyer David S. Goyer has a deliciously twisted mind. (They don't call him The Prince of Darkness for nothing.) And he knows how to bring comic book characters and superheroes to kicking, screaming, vengeful life, as he did in The Crow: City of Angels, the Blade series, and Batman Begins. His intense Batman screenplay, written with director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), resurrected the moribund Dark Knight franchise and confirmed his writing voice as a go-to source for a green light. Here, in this wry and surprising dialogue, Goyer reveals his tricks of the trade for how to intimidate a room full of studio executives, when to stand on principle, how to hook an actor's ego with killer character descriptions and dialogue, and why fear can pay the bills. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascin"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - David Seltzer - Download |
"So much of dialogue shouldn't be spoken. It's one of the mistakes that new writers make. They think anything they think of should be spoken. David Seltzer knows Hollywood. He knows the business, the tricks of the trade and all the hidden truths. He's got the stories from working with Jacques Cousteau, penning the horror classic The Omen and adapting Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. In addition to writing Dragonfly and My Giant, Seltzer also wrote and directed the coming-of-age story Lucas and Punchline. He can tell you why writing is like love-making and why there is no such thing as fiction. His advice about directing? Wear comfortable shoes. In this interview, you'll learn that and more, including what recent screenplay is the most elegant he has ever heard spoken on-screen and why you don't win arguments with movie stars."
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Bruce Joel Rubin - Download |
"Don't do it if you don't love it, and be enthusiastic about your work. Really invest it in everything in your being. Do what has to be done. Get up at 2 in the morning if an idea strikes you, and don't wait to get up at 6 or 7, do it when it's there. - Bruce Joel Rubin With over 23 years in the business, Bruce Joel Rubin has done it all. From his Oscar-winning screenplay for the romantic-comedy-drama Ghost, to the psychological thriller Jacob's Ladder, the family-friendly adventure Stuart Little 2, and the tearjerker My Life, which he also directed. Other writing credits include Deep Impact, Brainstorm and Deceived. In this in-depth interview, Rubin delivers some insightful stuff: his carpet-laying theory about writing, the story behind the Jacob's Ladder gut-wrenching opening scene, and which of his screenplays came about thanks to a burrito that didn't digest well. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that go"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Ed Solomon - Download |
"You realize how little dialogue really needs to be said. While most writers find success in either TV or movies, comedy or drama, original or adapted screenplays, Ed Solomon has managed to do it all. He got his start in television sitcoms and went on to write quirky sci-fi comedies Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Men in Black, the crime drama Levity, which he also directed, and the adaptation of the mystery adventure novel Tokyo Suckerpunch. In this interview, get the scoop on Solomon's bass-ackwards entry into the world of screenwriting and how being just a funny guy translated into being a funny professional."
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Ted Griffin - Download |
"If you write a really compelling story, everyone will want to be involved. -Ted Griffin There's no con more satisfying and lucrative than finding a way to make a living as a screenwriter. And Ted Griffin is a man who knows a good con. Anyone who tried to follow the clever criminal head games he built into his screenplays for Ocean's Eleven and Matchstick Men knows not to trust this guy. Except when he talks about screenwriting, which he does with great humor and insight in this enlightening interview that ranges from his early work on Ravenous and Best Laid Plans through the unexpected pitfalls of trying to direct his first film, Rumor Has It... About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascinating craft of screenwriting. In these extensive in-depth discussions with savvy industry interviewers, more than two-dozen of today's most successful screenwriters share their work ha"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Jim Uhls - Download Edition |
"I like to stretch the boundaries of genre and layer in as much interesting material as I can. -Jim Uhls Jim Uhls is not your average screenwriter. For one thing, his nickname is Professor Peculiar. For another, as this exclusive off-kilter discussion of his craft demonstrates, Uhls is eager to break the first rule of Fight Club: He talks about Fight Club. A lot. That seminal film, directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Panic Room), pushed every boundary possible for a studio movie, and Uhls' darkly funny script, adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel, is a wickedly subversive example of how to successfully adapt an unadaptable book. Step inside the mind of the man who figured out how to do it, as Professor Peculiar explains how to use a newspaper story approach to build a brilliant pitch, why you should interview your characters, how to know when to stick a fork in your screenplay, and the macabre particulars of how and why he had to murder his brother's cat. About The Dialogue Series: "
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Jose Rivera - Download |
"Jose Rivera's pivotal screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries was one of the most celebrated works of 2005. It earned him Writers Guild, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations, and was his first major screenplay. His foray into movies came after establishing himself as an award-winning playwright and a hugely accomplished writer for television, where his credits include co-creating and producing the critically-acclaimed television series Eerie, Indiana. In this interview, Rivera discusses how his theater training helped pave the way to screenwriting and why he compares the writing process to building cabinets. The Puerto Rican-born writer also talks about his latest project, the adaptation of Jack Kerouac's literary classic On the Road, which re-pairs him with Diaries director Walter Salles. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascinating craft of screenwriting. In these extensi"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Nick Kazan - Download |
"With close to 30 years experience in the business, Nick Kazan knows a few things about screenwriting. He has mastered research skills to write scripts based on true events like Frances, At Close Range, Patty Hearst and Reversal of Fortune, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He has the knowledge of handling life after the nomination and how to manage studio notes and incorporate changes without weakening the script. He has the expertise of directing his own script, Dream Lover and writing with a partner, including a collaboration with his wife Robin Swicord on the adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, Matilda. And on top of all that, this seasoned professional offers insight as to why he doesn't do lunches, what it takes to develop screenwriting muscles and why life is always a comedy. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascinating craft of screenwriting. In these extens"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Susannah Grant - Download |
"There's no scene in that movie that wasn't rewritten any fewer than 35 times. I mean constantly, constantly rewriting. - Susannah Grant Susannah Grant received an Oscar nomination in 2001 for her screenplay based on the life of working-class heroine Erin Brockovich. The AFI graduate and Nicholl Fellowship winner first started out writing for the television show Party of Five, and then went on to pen the scripts for Ever After and 28 Days. Following her nomination, Grant adapted In Her Shoes and Charlotte's Web, as well as write and direct Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner. In this interview, learn all about the midwife vs. mother role of novel adaptations, the importance of finding your voice and why sometimes you just have to be able to really, really suck. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascinating craft of screenwriting. In these extensive in-depth discu"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - John Hamburg - Download |
"John Hamburg is a very funny guy. After starting a humor magazine called The Dalton Lampoon in high school and making a popular comedic short film about slacker bomb defusers while attending NYU's graduate filmmaking program, Hamburg wrote and directed the crime comedy Safe Men, which played at Sundance and spawned a devoted cult following. A sure-thing comedy closer, the New York City native built hilarious set pieces and character work into Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Meet the Fockers that not only helped lift them to huge box office but also pushed a few new catchphrases into the American lexicon. A veteran of the uncredited production rewrite, Hamburg also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Along Came Polly in 2004. In this amusing interview, Hamburg discusses how he developed his talent for writing actor-hooking dialogue in the humorous monologues he performed in college, why he'd do a thousand test screenings if he could, and what it's like to hand a new scene to Rober"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Lowell Ganz And Babaloo |
"Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours, let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years. But the blockbuster comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel has been making television and film audiences laugh for decades. In the early '70s, Ganz was writing for The Odd Couple while Mandel was receiving his first paychecks for work on M*A*S*H and Busting Loose. They both eventually landed on Happy Days, and when they followed actor-turned-director Ron Howard into feature films, the result was a frequent and fruitful creative partnership that led to hilarious and heartwarming comedies like Night Shift, Splash, Gung Ho, Parenthood, and Edtv. In total, Ganz and Mandel have written an astonishing 18 produced feature screenplays, including City Slickers, A League of Their Own, Mr. Saturday Night, Forget Paris, Where the Heart Is, Robots, and Fever Pitch, while also maintaining a secret career of un-credited rewrites on studio comedies. Listen in as the"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Paul Haggis - Download |
"At the center of every story is some question I do not have the answer for, and something that really scares me. -Paul Haggis Acclaimed writer-director Paul Haggis has been a fixture of television and film for over 25 years. In this wide-ranging interview, the Oscar ®-winning co-screenwriter, director, and producer of Crash (Best Picture 2005) discusses a three-decade career that led from writing for sitcoms like Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life to his breakthrough screenplay for Oscar ®-winning director Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture 2004). Haggis's matter-of-fact stories of navigating the entertainment industry are an indelible primer for how to manage the screenwriting life, make a successful transition from TV to film, develop a strong story and characters, pitch an idea, and surmount Hollywood's more frustrating obstacles. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes be"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Stuart Beattie - Download |
"I love films that are simple stories with complex characters. -Stuart Beattie Australian screenwriter Stuart Beattie is credited with having written the role no one ever thought they'd see Tom Cruise play: Vincent, the riveting homicidal hit man in Beattie's original screenplay, Collateral, directed by Michael Mann (The Insider, Heat). After 15 years in the business, Beattie has learned a thing or two about how to make characters and plots sing (or sting) on the page. And his long-gestating idea for a rejuvenation of the pirate movie eventually hit pay dirt with the Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, on which he has story credit. Listen in as Beattie describes what it feels like when Tom Cruise looks like he wants to kill you, where the best story ideas come from, and how to stay passionate when you can't even get your mother to read your screenplays. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Jonathan Hensleigh - |
"Some writers are just not capable of outlining. They don't like it. They prefer to sit down, type Fade-In and find their way into the story. Then twenty pages in, they know the characters and can begin figuring out the plot. I work the other way, maybe it's my legal training... Jonathan Hensleigh knows good action. This former attorney stopped practicing law to pursue screenwriting, and with his big break writing episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, his foray into the action/adventure genre began. After writing the screenplay for Die Hard: With a Vengeance, he worked on such films as Jumanji, The Saint, Armageddon and The Rock. Hensleigh also wrote and directed the film adaptation of Marvel Comics' The Punisher, for which he is also writing the sequel. In this no-holds-barred interview, learn his approach to developing action scenes, how the attorney in him comes out in his writing and what he really thinks about screenwriting classes."
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Marshall Herskovitz - |
"Words are the last things that people do. They have the thought, they have the fear, they have another thought, they want to run, and finally, they speak. -Marshall Herskovitz Writer, director, producer Marshall Herskovitz is one of the most prominent figures in film and television. With partner Ed Zwick, whom he met while attending the American Film Institute, Herskovitz has created and executive produced the highly-acclaimed television shows thirtysomething and Once and Again, and written the film The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise. He served as producer on the films Traffic, I Am Sam and Dangerous Beauty, which he also directed. Here, Herskovitz delves into the mediocrity of the industry, the voices that writers hear in their heads and why it's best to write first and ask questions later. About The Dialogue Series: THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking interview series that goes behind the scenes of the fascinating craft of screenwriting. In these e"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Jeff Nathanson - Download |
"I never speak in a notes meeting. I just sit there, I'm very polite, and I sip a Diet Coke. Jeff Nathanson is easily among the A-list of Hollywood screenwriters. His script for Catch Me If You Can earned him much critical praise, as well as the devotion of Steven Spielberg, who also brought him to work on his next movie, The Terminal. Nathanson has also collaborated with Jan de Bont on Twister and Speed 2: Cruise Control and with Brett Ratner on the Rush Hour films. In this interview, learn more about why he dreads pitching, never speaks during a notes meeting, and finds he can do almost all his research with the Internet and old Playboys."
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Paul Attanasio - Download |
"What's so interesting to me about writing screenplays is, it's all about what you say and also what you don't say in the screenplay - Paul Attanasio A self-described poet of pain, Paul Attanasio has forged a highly respected career as a master of challenging film adaptations. His nuanced and gripping screenplays for Quiz Show and Donnie Brasco earned him Oscar nominations, and he brought sexy, character-driven life to the Michael Crichton page-turner, Disclosure. The Bronx-born writer created the acclaimed Peabody Award-winning television show Homicide: Life on the Street, and he serves as executive producer of the popular medical drama, House, M.D. Also a frequently hired script doctor, Attanasio most recently adapted the post-World War II novel The Good German for director Steven Soderbergh. In this intense dialogue, Attanasio describes how he went from lambasting movies as a snotty Washington Post film critic to developing explosive and rewarding creative partnerships with Oscar-"
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Robin Swicord - Download |
"I write forward, then I move backward, then I write forward. It's a process so that my first draft has usually been worked through quite a bit. After graduating from Florida State, Robin Swicord made her start in copywriting and playwriting. She eventually migrated west where she has since set up shop as one of Hollywood's top screenwriters. Her first big-screen adaptation was of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women, which starred Winona Ryder and proved to be a big success. That was soon followed by the adapted screenplays for The Perez Family, Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha and Matilda, which she penned with husband Nick Kazan, as well as the upcoming The Jane Austen Book Club, which she wrote and directed. In this interview, learn more as Swicord delves into the adaptations, collaborations and frustrations she's experienced as a screenwriter."
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The Dialogue: Learning From The Masters - Peter Tolan - Download |
"In a comedy, you should go out on a joke or go out on something that propels you to the next scene. An accomplished writer, producer and director, Peter Tolan is probably best known as co-creator of TV shows The Job and Rescue Me, and co-writer of Analyze This, and its sequel, Analyze That. He started his career on the writing staff of television sitcoms and then became a writer and producer on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show. From there, Tolan made his foray into movies with the screenplays for My Fellow Americans, Bedazzled, and America's Sweethearts. In this candid interview, hear all about his tales of procrastination, writing movies in 5 days and why he says he would have a great career if it weren't for... himself."
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Developing And Pitching The Television Show - Download Edition - Mp4 |
"The idea is just the beginning when you are developing and pitching a television show. Execs expect you to have a logline with an exciting hook, a fully flesh-out world populated by well-defined characters, and a premise strong enough to span episode after episode, season after season. In this session, you ™ll explore the tools that seasoned TV writers use to turn their ideas into the shows that keep viewers tuning in every week."
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"Getting An Agent The Old Fashioned Way ""The Query Letter - Download" |
"<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Getting an agent is easy; what "
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The Rewrite - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
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Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter's Blueprint For Career Success |
"There are over 1,094 books on Amazon that show you how to write a screenplay but next-to-nothing on how to break into Hollywood, sell your script and build a successful writing career. Until now. As a producer, Gary W. Goldstein s movies have generated well over $1B in global box office receipts. His portfolio includes Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies. But more importantly over the last two decades Gary has nurtured, mentored and launched some of Hollywood s most successful screenwriters. In his book, Conquering Hollywood, he reveals proven career-making strategies, planning and advice for aspiring (and established) screenplay writers. The strategies in this book will help you whether you re looking to sell a spec script, option your screenplay, land a writing assignment and get hired, attract an agent or manager of your dreams or get a producer to take a meeting with you."
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How Professional Writers Structure Their Scripts - Ondemand Edition |
"ABOUT THE WEBINAR: If you read the scripts that are selling in this marketplace, you ™ll quickly realize that they aren't following the same old tired rules and formulas. This is why agents and managers say that they can spot a popular paradigm script from a mile away. These scripts never succeed. If you use a �this must happen by this page � approach you will almost always run into the following problems: Your script will read like all of the other scripts that follow the same rules and therefore have little chance to stand out. Your script will be predictable since the reader knows what specific plot points are going to happen on what specific page. Your script will be populated by less-than-compelling characters that feel like puppets forced to say and do things in order to serve pre-ordained plot points. Even worse, by conforming to a set of one-size-fits-all, paint-by-the-numbers rules, you tend to destroy what ™s original, unique, and interesting about"
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Script Secrets - Download Edition - Mp4 Video |
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