How to Build a Great Screenplay by David Howard

How to Build a Great Screenplay by David Howard

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How to Build a Great Screenplay by David Howard

As founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at the University of Southern California, David Howard has taught the authors of some of the most successful movies of our time. Now, in HOW TO BUILD A GREAT SCREENPLAY, he synthesizes years of teaching into a thorough and profound curriculum in storytelling - a way to structure any kind of screenplay for maximum dramatic effect. Chapters include: - Where the Antagonist? - Main Character or Ensemble Story? - Six Types of Characters - Screen Time and Drama - How to Wave in Subplots The book concludes with analysis of seven very different bu successful movies, including Octobers Sky, American Beauty, The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction.
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ISBN 13 9780312252113
ISBN 10 0312252110
Title How to Build a Great Screenplay
Author David Howard
Condition Unavailable
Publisher St Martin's Press
Year published 2004-11-08
Number of pages 352
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