Let’s cut to the chase: Writing a Great Movie is a practical nuts-and-bolts manual to dramatic writing for film. This hands-on course in screenwriting shows how to create, develop, and construct an original screenplay from scratch using seven essential tools for the screenwriter—(1) Dilemma, Crisis, Decision and Action, and Resolution; (2) Theme; (3) the 36 Dramatic Situations; (4) the Enneagram; (5) Research and Brainstorming; (6) the Central Proposition; and (7) Sequence, Proposition, and Plot—which break the writing process down into approachable steps and produce great results. Author Jeff Kitchen—a working screenwriter, renowned dramaturge, and teacher at the University of Southern California’s graduate film school—shares the insider secrets he has developed over years of writing and teaching. Writing a Great Movie is the complete guide to creating compelling screenplays that will sell. • State-of-the-art screenwriting theory and technique from a master • Author named one of today's top screenwriting teachers in Creative Screenwriting magazine • Great for writers at every level, beginner to established

Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

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Kitchen, Jeff

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This book is a companion piece to Writing A Great Movie: Four Advanced Tools for the Dramatist. It is a set of dramaturgical analyses of The Godfather, Tootsie and Blade Runner and serves as a further illustration of the tools explained in the first book.

Script Analysis: The Godfather, Tootsie, Blade Runner

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Writing a Great Movie: Four Advanced Tools for the Dramatist

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