Writing a Great Movie Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting

Name: Writing a Great Movie Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting
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ISBN: 9780823069781

ISBN-10: 0823069788

ISBN-13: 9780823069781

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Jeff Kitchen

List price: $19.95

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Let's 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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Jeff Kitchenworked as a dramaturge at New York’s Playwrights Preview Productions and the Negro Ensemble Company before starting to teach playwriting and screenwriting in 1991. He has worked with executives at Miramax, Sony Pictures, and Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. He lives in Santa Monica, California.



Dilemma, crisis, decision & action, and resolution : dramatizing your plot


Theme : developing the heart of your story


The 36 dramatic situations : developing and energizing your plot


The enneagram : creating deep, complex, and distinct characters


Research and brainstorming : exploring possibilities and opening up your story


The central proposition : typing your plot together and cranking up the conflict


Sequence, proposition, plot : constructing and tightening your plot


Using dilemma, crisis, decision & action, and resolution


Using theme


Using the 36 dramatic situations


Using the enneagram


Using research and brainstorming


Using the central proposition


Using sequence, proposition, plot