Category: Books
March
12
2010
- ISBN13: 9781557048479
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The official screenplay book to the new film from Academy Award® winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), starring Demetri Martin. Includes a color portfolio with production notes, historical images and movie stills.
Taking Woodstock is inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was.
It’s 1969, and Elliot, an interior designer in Greenwich Village, has to move back upstate to…
March
12
2010
- ISBN13: 9781581824551
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Earl Hamner, a Virginia native, is one of America’s best-loved storytellers, but he has never been the subject of a full-length study. EARL HAMNER: FROM WALTON’S MOUNTAIN TO TOMORROW fills that gap.
Hamner once said, “Even though families are said to be shattered these days, and God is said to be dead, if people can revisit the scenes and places where these values did exist, possibly they can come to believe in them again, or…to adapt some kind of belief in God, or faith…
March
11
2010
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The movie tie-in edition of the newest work by renowned Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
March
11
2010
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Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as originality, credibility, contrivance, crudeness, monotony, repetition. Story appeal, story impact. Threat, hope, need to know, tension and pace. Character realization, character identification, character appeal, repellant characters, character change, character and dynamics, a group as a character. The reality of relationships, the identity of relationships, the appeal of relationships, relationships and dynamics. Architecture, design, types of structure, sequential structuring, story steps, the set-up, openings, endings. Embodiment, scene appeal, scene…
March
11
2010
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The “Production Manual” covers every aspect of the moviemaking process and reveals the step-by-step approach to producing high-quality, low budget movies.
Independent filmmakers, students and industry professionals alike will find the practical, cost-saving techniques in the “Production Manual” invaluable both on and off the set.
Full of thousands of tips, tricks, technical guides, industry contact information, charts and illustrations, the “Production Manual” is the ultimate filmmaker’s resource.
The “Production Manual” includes the award-winning $2,000 movie, “Time and Again,” which was produced as a companion to the “Production Manual.” Complete with director’s commentaries, trailers…
March
10
2010
- ISBN13: 9780440504900
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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An analysis of Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances With Wolves provides tips on script writing for original productions, sequels, novel adaptations, and adaptations by original authors.
March
9
2010
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A tight, well-crafted book outlining the techniques applied to writing the Great American novel, the blockbuster screenplay or any other area of storytelling one might wish to pursue.
March
8
2010
- ISBN13: 9780240807362
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The vast majority of screenplay and writing books focus on story development and have little to say about the initial concept that generated the piece. Developing Story Ideas offers writers a spectrum of resources and a structure of writing practice so that anyone can quickly and reliably generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms. It first shows you how to observe situations, acts, and themes-and use these observations as the basis for storytelling. Exercises and projects help you draw…
March
7
2010
- ISBN13: 9780471225454
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
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From concept to finished draft–a nuts-and-bolts approach to adaptations
Aspiring and established screenwriters everywhere, take note! This down-to-earth guide is the first to clearly articulate the craft of adaptation. Drawing on his own experience and on fourteen years of teaching, screenwriter Richard Krevolin presents his proven five-step process for adapting anything–from novels and short stories to newspaper articles and poems–into a screenplay. Used by thousands of novelists, playwrights, poets, and journalists around the country, this can’t-miss process features practical advice on how to break down a story into…
March
6
2010
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The first book published by AmFAR–American Foundation for AIDS Research–offers a look behind the Hollywood scenes at the lives and legends of the movie industry today, with trivia tidbits, anecdotes, and incredible stories based on actual interviews. IP.