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Truby's Blockbuster

At a Glance

  • Story planning software for screenplays
  • Guides you through the story development process from idea to final rewrite
  • The only software to focus on writing for specific genres

Truby’s Blockbuster 5.1 puts hundreds of professional techniques at your fingertips to help you create a great story, in a fraction of the usual time and effort. Based on an interface that teaches as you write, Blockbuster shows you the deep structural weaknesses that are likely to be in your script and takes you through the ideal order for fixing them.

By no means a "paint by number" approach to storytelling, Blockbuster demonstrates how to turn original ideas into completely developed storylines fit for the big screen through its many intuitive features, including:

  • Premise and Genre tools find the 'gold' in your idea and which genre forms work best for expressing it
  • Character Web and List screens help you create complex characters that grow over the course of the story and move the reader
  • The 7 Keys give you the nucleus on which your ideal story will be based
  • The 22 Building Blocks™ of every great story, which gives you a surprising plot that builds steadily from beginning to end
  • A Rewrite function exposes problem areas in your script and how to fix them
  • The Story Coach™ keeps you on track with structure, character and plot
  • Drag and Drop Scene List lets you figure out the ideal sequence of your scenes
  • Truby’s complete Story Structure Course, the 103 Greatest Characters in fiction, 23 most valuable Story Techniques, and much more

Blockbuster is the only screenwriting course program of its kind to focus on writing for specific genres. With add-ons for action, comedy, horror and every genre of screenwriting, Blockbuster can be tailored to fit exactly the style of movie you're working on.

Software Requirements:
Win: 16 MB RAM; 35 MB HD free disk space; Windows 95 - XP; CD-ROM Drive. Intel Macs: Use Windows BB5 w/Boot Camp (free download from Apple) or Parallels Desktop and Windows XP or Vista

Product Details

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Meet the Author: John Truby

John Truby is Hollywood’s premiere story consultant and founder of Truby’s Writers Studio. He has worked as a story consultant and script doctor for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, and HBO, among others, and has taught his 22-Step Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over 20,000 students worldwide.

$59.00+