Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434: The Industry's Top Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay

Author:   Lew Hunter
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN:  

9780399529863


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 May 2004
Format:   Paperback
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For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.

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Author:   Lew Hunter
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9780399529863


ISBN 10:   0399529861
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 May 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Lew Hunter's ScreenwritingFade In Redux Fade In Chapter 1: Ideas The Anatomy of Screen Ideas Getting Your Idea Selecting the Idea Chapter 2: The Two-Minute Movie Tricks of the Story Trade Plotting Out the Two-Minute Movie Writing the Two-Minute Movie Getting it Right Chapter 3: Building Your Characters Heavies and Heros Character Dialogue The Country and City Mice Nude in the Rain Another Motto for Writers The Little People Nixon, Cather, and Tolstoy Chapter 4: The Outline for You and ""Them"" The Structure of Structure The Step Outline and the Three Acts Scene Do's and Don'ts Your Step Outline-Act One-The Situation Your Step Outline-Act Two-The Complications Your Step Outline-Act Three-The Conclusion Promise The Glass Hammer Step Outline The End The Revised Step Outline From Goals to Reality Your Story Is Now Told Outlines and Treatments Outlines for the New Writer The Outline Form Chapter 5: The Act One Script The Script Form Don't Direct the Director Dialogue Description The Beginning Discipline The Glass Hammer First Act The End of the Beginning Chapter 6: The Act Two Script Second Acts and Third Parties Making Scenes Interesting Stopwatch Timing Writing Your Second Act The Glass Hammer Second Act The End of The Middle Chapter 7: The Act Three Script Hunter on Third Acts The Unhappy Ending The Third-Act Page Count The Glass Hammer Third Act The Most Important Draft Chapter 8: The Rewrite(s) Rewriting for Yourself Before the Madding Crowd Re-Writing The First Read-ThroughThe Polish The Ecstasy The Rewriting Time for Yourself Should Your Title Be your Title? And Now, the Madding Crowd Rewriting for Others The Final Rewrite After All Is Said and Done-and Done Fade Out Index About the Author"

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If you want to learn about screenwriting, this is the book for you. (Aaron Spelling, Spelling Entertainment)


Author Information

Lew Hunter has master’s degrees from the University of California Los Angeles and Northwestern University and a doctor of letters from Nebraska Wesleyan University. He has worked for Columbia, Lorimar, Paramount, Disney, NBC, ABC, and CBS as a writer, producer, and executive. Currently he is chair emeritus of the screenwriting department at UCLA, and is the founder of the Lew Hunter Superior Screenwriting Colony in Superior, Nebraska.

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