With clear logic and accessible language, Anatomy of a Screenplay goes beyond the rigid-rule and subjecive approaches to screenwriting to show a flexible and accurate way of understanding a screenplay. Dan Decker's revolutionary theories of Character Structure, Drive Structure and Convergence are presented to the public for the first time in this book.
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Dan Decker is the founder and director of The Screenwriters Group and has taught screenwriting in cities all over America to audiences from professionals to high school students, where his skills at communicating the essence of screenwriting have been honed. Mr. Decker's students have sold the scripts developed under his guidance to television and feature film producers. Mr. Decker also operates Stylus Management, a writers' management company, and has sold a number of his own screenplays.
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One of the two best screenwriting books I've ever read.,
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If you want a practical, "how to" book that treats the reader with respect and assumes a high level of intelligence this is it. More in depth than other screenwriting books on the market. The other book of quality I would look at is "The Writer's Journey" by Vogler.
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As a member of the film industry, I found the principles in Dan's book to be right on. They do not limit the screenwriter but give a firm "backbone" on which individual creativity can be expanded. Dan offers solid advice for filmmakers entering the business.
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Brilliant and concise - A must read for new screen writers.,
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This is a book about the fundamental CRAFT of writing a screenplay. Outlining, structure, character relationships, story points, log lines, format. I had the good fortune of taking one Dan Decker's classes in screenwriting, it was an invaluable experience. This is everything one needs to get started... that is, if they are SERIOUS about writing a successful screenplay!K.E. Cole
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Market forces have shaped the "Mainstream American Movie" over the last century into a compact and efficient mode of storytelling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genre set piece, thematic journey, universal human mind, story drive, character drive, dream objective, percent intensity, visual grammar, scene level, character structure, split mains, thematic core, four resolutions, episodic narrative Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Window Character, Theme Drive, Midnight Run, Entertainment Drive, Objective Drive, Drive Structure, Genre Drive, Lost Point, Fateful Decision, Forrest Gump, Harvey Keitel, Taxi Driver, Victor Laszlo, Visualized Emotional Cues, Eddie Moscone, Jimmy Serrano, Voice Over Narration New!
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Window Character, Theme Drive, Midnight Run, Entertainment Drive, Objective Drive, Drive Structure, Genre Drive, Lost Point, Fateful Decision, Forrest Gump, Harvey Keitel, Taxi Driver, Victor Laszlo, Visualized Emotional Cues, Eddie Moscone, Jimmy Serrano, Voice Over Narration New!
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- High Noon [VHS] by Gary Cooper on page 11
- Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling by Stephen Denning in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- My Fractured Life by Rikki Lee Travolta in Front Matter
- Virtual Storytelling; Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling: Second International Conference, ICVS 2003, Toulouse, France, November ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Olivier Balet on page 73
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