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Truby's Blockbuster Genre Add-on - Memoir & True Story
If you think writing Memoirs & True Stories is just transcribing what happened in your life, don't be fooled! The challenge is distilling a great story, with universal appeal, out of often-everyday events. Let the master of genre, John Truby be your guide. |
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Truby's Memoir & True Story Audio Course
Memoir & True Stories may be the most popular genre for books and films right now. But it is a surprisingly difficult to do and most writers lack the techniques they need to bring their unique story to life. Genre master John Truby applies his advanced story techniques to illuminate the path of a well told story! |
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Basics & Beyond: Final Draft Training
Our resident Final Draft expert, Mario Moreno will discuss all the creativity-enhancing commodities available in the new version -- moving through the tool-bar from one surprising feature to the next -- while sharing advanced formatting tips employed by professional screenwriters. |
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Movie Magic Budgeting 7 Academic (Download)
The Industry legend is back and better than ever! Movie Magic
Budgeting 7 boasts an intuitive format that allows you to
customize, create and edit comprehensive budgets of all sizes,
and for all types of productions. |
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Script Magazine - 1 Year Subscription - USA
Script has been the leading source for information on the
craft and business of writing for film and television for over
11 years. Each bi-monthly issue delivers informative articles
on writing, developing and marketing screenplays and
television scripts. |
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The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
It's like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start
out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many,
it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in
entertainment -- including David Geffen, Barry
Diller, and Michael Ovitz -- started their dazzling
careers. |
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Cut by Cut
Learn how the skilled editor turns raw footage into polished art for film, television or web. With over 25 information-packed tables and forms, this guide includes an up-to-date glossary, an editor’s resource guide and a section on how to land that elusive editing job. |
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Save the Cat! Strikes Back
The book everyone has been clamoring for is here! Inspired by questions from his workshops, lectures, and emails, Blake Snyder has listened to you and delivers new tips, tactics, and techniques to solve your writing problems. Get ready to face trouble like a pro... and strike back! |
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An Education
One rainy day Jenny's suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening - or her undoing. |
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Away We Go
The first original screenplay by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and Vendela Vida (Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name), Away We Go is the newest movie directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes. |
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The Reader
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, The Reader is a haunting story about truth and reconciliation, and about a generation that must come to terms with the crimes of another. |
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The Big Lebowski
The Coen Brother's cult classic homage to the noir, weird heart of Los Angeles is back in print! Follow The Dude as he attempts to get back his stolen rug ("It really ties the room together"), gets mixed up with a bogus kidnapping, and battles for bowling glory. |
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Hollywood Creative Directory #67
HCD Producers is the bible of the film and television
industry. Thoroughly researched and meticulously compiled,
Producers lists up-to-date information on producers, studio
and network executives. No one working in Hollywood or trying
to break into the film industry should be without this book. |
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The Burning Plain
In addition to the complete screenplay, this
Newmarket Shoot Script® book also includes an
introduction by and Q&A with Arriaga, a color photo
section, and the complete cast and crew credits. |
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A Serious Man
It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, is watching his life fall apart before his eyes. His search for some kind of equilibrium is conveyed with the kind of humor, imagination, and verbal wit that have made the work of Ethan and Joel Coen so distinctive. |
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Burn After Reading
Joel and Ethan Coen take on the spy thriller genre and reinvent it in their unique voice - combining humor and violence in completely unexpected ways, and wrapping it all up with a the verbal dexterity that makes their work so distinctive. |
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Truby's Secrets of Genre Seminar
The first rule of the entertainment business is:
it buys and sells genres. Today’s most popular
movies are always at least one story form, and
usually a combination of two or three. Problem:
almost no one is an expert at the intricate array
of beats, tricks and techniques required by the
eleven most popular movie genres. Hollywood’s top
genre expert, John Truby, will show you the top
secrets of the most popular story forms in the
entertainment business. |
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Martha Alderson's Plot Workshop
Martha Alderson brings us a workshop not to be missed,
bringing her expertise to Southern California. This plot
workshop will benefit writers of all kinds: Screenwriters,
Novelists, and Memoirists. Learn how to develop a multi-
layered plot for the overall story level, as well as deepen
character development and dramatic action at the scene
level. |
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Getting the Money: A Step-By-Step Guide for Writing Business Plans for Film
Filmmakers interested in financing their own films
have to start with a business plan. Few know how
to put one together. Getting the Money gives a
relaxed, step-by-step approach on how to do so. Of
particular use are the financial sections where,
for the first time, readers are guided on exactly
what to do and exactly how to do it, using
examples from sample plans. No more vague
instructions that amount to hiring someone else.
Once finished with the book, readers will have
their own plan they can use to attract financing
for their films. |
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Horror Screenwriting: The Nature of Fear
Horror is often overlooked by critics who don't see anything
more than blood and guts on the screen, or a collection of
cheap scares. But what is missed is the hard-hitting
commentary on society and life contained in those works. |
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Screenplay Development Notes from The Story Specialists
You've passed your script around to your buddies. You've let your mom take a look at it. While feedback from friends and family is great, it simply can't compare to an unbiased critique from a seasoned professional. Discover the difference an expert reading of your script makes with Screenplay Development Notes from The Story Specialists. |
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The Hero's 2 Journeys DVD
In this special 3-DVD set, designed for storytellers and filmmakers, these two renowned writers and teachers provide their unique insiders' understanding of how story structure, character arc, and theme must combine with myth, archetype, and transformation to touch the widest possible audience. |
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Inglourious Basterds Screenplay
With such iconic films as the Oscar-winning "Pulp
Fiction," "Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2," and
"Reservoir Dogs," Quentin Tarantino has become the
most famous and revered writer/director of his
generation. Filled with Tarantino's trademark
electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences,
"Inglourious Basterds" is destined to become one
of the most talked about films of 2009 and a
landmark in cinematic history. |
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