PN1996.C814

- Part 1: Fundamentals : breaking Ground - Chapter 1: Storytelling in General - Chapter 2: Telling A Story in images - Chapter 3: Using sound to tell the story - Chapter 4: Discovering and Exploring a main Character - Chapter 5: Telling the dramatic story - Chapter 6: Writing an original short screenplay - Chapter 7: on revision : substrance and style - Part 2: Moving forward : writing strategies - Chapter 8: The Need For Storyteling - Chapter 9: visualization startegies - Chapter 10: dramatic strategies - Chapter 11: Characterization Strategie - Chapter 12: More Om dialalogies - Part 3: Genres Forming the story - Chapter 13: the melodrama - Chapter 14: the docudrama - Chapter 15: the hyperdrama - Chapter 16: the experiemental narrative Part 4: New Directions - Chapter 17: the opportunity for renewwal

The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dramatization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length) and complete. Exercises, new examples of short screenplays, and an examination of various genres round out the discussion. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION: new screenplays, a chapter on rewriting your script, and a chapter on the future of short films