Tabb, Michael,
Prewriting your screenplay : a step-by-step guide to generating stories / Michael Tabb. - xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Focal Press book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index.
Foreword/PrefaceAct One - The SetupChapter 1: Premise (the Big Bang for your script)Chapter 2: Genre (getting in the right mood)Chapter 3: The Brainstorm (the storm of ideas)Act Two - Character DrivenChapter 4: Character IntroductionChapter 5: Protagonist (with details on anti-heroes and failed protagonists)Chapter 6: Antagonist (and the mentor gone wrong)Chapter 7: Can the Protagonist be the Antagonist?Chapter 8: Love Interest (the motivator of inner journey and the lust interest)Chapter 9: Mentor (the model for success in the physical goal or outer journey)Chapter 10: Dual Mentors (mind versus mission)Chapter 11: The Protagonist's Reflection characters (a look in the mirror)Chapter 12: A Final Reflection (character concept summation)Act Three - The Big IdeaChapter 13: Culmination (assembly of the puzzle pieces)Chapter 14: The Story (everything into a single story)Chapter 15: The Logline (how you'd sell it - from story to high concept)Appendix - Bonus Material/Final Exercise Foreword --
Preface --
Act 1. Story origins. Premise --
Genre --
The brainstorm --
Act 2. Character creation. Character development --
Protagonist --
Antagonist --
Can the protagonist be the antagonist? --
Love interests --
Mentor --
Dual mentors --
Allies --
Final reflections on characters --
Act 3. Culmination. Some assembly required --
From concept to story --
Loglines --
Three-act structure --
Reverse engineering from plot to premise --
Final words of advice.
Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time, building and incorporating each element into the whole.The book provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct that story base around concepts as individual as the writer's personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer's voice. It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay.
College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Text in English
9781138482289 (hardback) 9781138482296 (pbk.)
2018009018
Motion picture authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PN1996 / .T23 2019
808.23 T11 2019
Prewriting your screenplay : a step-by-step guide to generating stories / Michael Tabb. - xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Focal Press book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210) and index.
Foreword/PrefaceAct One - The SetupChapter 1: Premise (the Big Bang for your script)Chapter 2: Genre (getting in the right mood)Chapter 3: The Brainstorm (the storm of ideas)Act Two - Character DrivenChapter 4: Character IntroductionChapter 5: Protagonist (with details on anti-heroes and failed protagonists)Chapter 6: Antagonist (and the mentor gone wrong)Chapter 7: Can the Protagonist be the Antagonist?Chapter 8: Love Interest (the motivator of inner journey and the lust interest)Chapter 9: Mentor (the model for success in the physical goal or outer journey)Chapter 10: Dual Mentors (mind versus mission)Chapter 11: The Protagonist's Reflection characters (a look in the mirror)Chapter 12: A Final Reflection (character concept summation)Act Three - The Big IdeaChapter 13: Culmination (assembly of the puzzle pieces)Chapter 14: The Story (everything into a single story)Chapter 15: The Logline (how you'd sell it - from story to high concept)Appendix - Bonus Material/Final Exercise Foreword --
Preface --
Act 1. Story origins. Premise --
Genre --
The brainstorm --
Act 2. Character creation. Character development --
Protagonist --
Antagonist --
Can the protagonist be the antagonist? --
Love interests --
Mentor --
Dual mentors --
Allies --
Final reflections on characters --
Act 3. Culmination. Some assembly required --
From concept to story --
Loglines --
Three-act structure --
Reverse engineering from plot to premise --
Final words of advice.
Prewriting Your Screenplay cements all the bricks of a story's foundations together and forms a single, organic story-growing technique, starting with a blank slate. It shows writers how to design each element so that they perfectly interlock together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a stronger story foundation that does not leave gaps and holes for readers to find. This construction process is performed one piece at a time, one character at a time, building and incorporating each element into the whole.The book provides a clear-cut set of lessons that teaches how to construct that story base around concepts as individual as the writer's personal opinions, helping to foster an individual writer's voice. It also features end-of-chapter exercises that offer step-by-step guidance in applying each lesson, providing screenwriters with a concrete approach to building a strong foundation for a screenplay.
College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Text in English
9781138482289 (hardback) 9781138482296 (pbk.)
2018009018
Motion picture authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
PN1996 / .T23 2019
808.23 T11 2019
