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Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting
Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting
Product Description
•State of the art screenwriting theory and technique from a master
•Author named one of today’s top screenwriting teachers in Creative Screenwriting magazine
Lets 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. Jeff Kitchen shares the insider secrets he has developed over years of writing and teaching. Writing a Great Movieis the complete guide to creating compelling screenplays that will sell.
Writing a Great Movie: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
- ISBN13: 9780312119089
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.
Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including Citizen Cane, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rashomon, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Chinatown, and sex, lies, and videotape.
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A comprehensive guide to writing screenplays by an experienced screenwriter and a respected writing teacher. Along with sections on the sreenwriter’s craft, basic storytelling, and the parts and objectives of a screenplay, the book is distinguished by detailed analyses of sixteen successful films’ screenplays, including the likes of E.T., Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, and Annie Hall.
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
- ISBN13: 9780470452615
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guide
After filming is done, digital compositors move in to manipulate color, retouch, and perform other behind-the-scenes tricks that are necessary to improve or finalize movies, games, and commercials. Now you can learn their secrets with this one-of-a-kind guide to digital compositing.
Professional animator and author Lee Lanier not only draws upon his own experience, he has also combed some of Hollywood’s most active post-production houses in search of the best solutions. Learn valuable techniques, tricks, and more.
- Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, particle integration, 2.5D painting, HDRI, stereoscopy and more
- Shows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke
- Includes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and more
Start your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you’ll find in this practical guide.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
Be #1 on Google: 52 Fast and Easy Search Engine Optimization Tools to Drive Customers to Your Web Site
- ISBN13: 9780071629607
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Google Your Way to the Top of Your Industry!
It’s great to have a punchy Web site, but if you aren’t optimizing your search-engine presence, you’re just another company lost in cyberspace.
With Be #1 on Google, you can instantly put your company in the top spot of relevant online searches—and dramatically increase sales. An international expert in search-engine optimization, Jon Smith explains how to draw serious customers—not curious or bored Web surfers—to your site by
- Registering with Google
- Coming up with the best keywords
- Thinking like your customers
- Making your site totally accessible
- Using metadata to your advantage
- Advertising on the Web
- Measuring what works, and what doesn’t
Containing 52 techniques in all, each of which can used immediately, Be #1 on Google is the essential guide to winning the battle for first ranking on the world’s most utilized search engine.