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The Ultimate Scriptwriting Kit
$199.95 $149.95
The Ultimate Script Writing Kit will walk you through every
step of writing a successful screenplay. Nothing is left out,
as working Hollywood writers, directors and producers share a
lifetime of guidance, advice and valuable technique with
you... all so you can succeed as a writer.
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On The Page: The DVD
Pilar Alessandra
Description
View a preview of On The Page.
Got ten minutes? Write your screenplay.
On the Page: the DVD is the ultimate resource for the busy writer, offering over 20 ten-minute writing tools that take your script from the brainstorming stage, through the outline, into a finished script, and even into the rewrite.
Screenwriting instructor / script consultant Pilar Alessandra guides writers of all levels through each phase of the process with her engaging and user-friendly approach. An internationally renowned speaker on screenwriting and story pitching, Pilar’s unique methods have helped hundreds of writers finish their screenplays, win major writing competitions, and make script sales to studios such as Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and Sony.
Now she’s assembled all of her exercises in one DVD so that you can get your screenplay out of your head ... and On the Page.
CHAPTERS:
STEP 1: BRAINSTORM THE IDEA
Brainstorming from Character
Brainstorming from Event
Brainstorming from Premise
STEP 2: FIND THE STORY
Creating Character Rules
Using Set-up and Payoff
Discovering Your Ending
Finding the Structure
STEP 3: OUTLINE THE BEATS
Finding the Goal, Activity and Complication
Rewriting the Beat Sheet
Adding Scenes
STEP 4: WRITE THE ROUGH DRAFT
Writing Around Intention
STEP 5: BUILD THE SCENES
Finding “the take.”
Beefing up your character set-up
Creating activity from flaw
STEP 6: HONE THE PAGES
Eliminating the camera direction
Describing your characters
STEP 7: PUNCH UP THE DIALOGUE
Defining your verbal strategy
Editing exposition
Finding the perfect line
ABOUT PILAR ALESSANDRA
Pilar Alessandra is the director of the popular writing program On the Page. She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar pictures and first caught the “teaching bug” as an instructor with the UCLA Writers Program. Since creating On the Page in 2001, she’s trained writers and story analysts at ABC/Disney, Nickelodeon and MTV and and has taught at numerous writing conferences including The American Screenwriting Association, The FTX Film and Television Festival and Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s Screenwriting Expo where she’s an annual “Star Speaker.” Students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship.
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