Screenwriter's Compass: Character As True North

Ever watch a movie, and despite great production value, fantastic action sequences, a great cast, etc, you come away thinking-I just didn't buy it. Chances are it was because you didn't care about the characters. Screenwriter's Compass presents a new way of approaching screenwriting, examining how effective screen storytelling must be grounded in the vivid imagining and presentation of character. Screenwriter's Compass will not offer formulas to follow but instead will give you the tools needed to chart your own path to screenwriting success. It details useful ways of thinking about writing, a.

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Front Cover; Screenwriter's Compass; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 First Things; Screenwriter's Compass; Big Deal--You're Writing a Screenplay; Gear Up; Screenwriting Is Writing; Craftsmanship; 2 Groundwork; Reading Theory; Character Up, Not Plot Down; Screenplays Are Structure; Upsetting Aristotle; The Poetics; Plot and Character; Action; Putting Aristotle to Work; Character as Aspect; Character as Agency; Drama as Choice; Character Completes Plot; Character-Driven versus Plot-Driven; Fable and Construct; Story; Event; Plot; Turning Theory to Task; 3 Getting Ready.

Master Shot ScreenplayReading Screenplays; Composition Creates Story; On Outlines; On Character Histories; On Treatments; On Adaptation; Types of Adaptation; Fidelity; Transformation; Narrative Time versus Story Time; Film Storytelling; Tasks of Adaptation; 4 First Draft; The Blank Page; Jump In; Show Up; Genre; Experience versus Imagination; Don't Be Precious; Posterity; Topicality; Revising As You Go; Slow Down; Innocent Reader; Scene and Action Description; Setting; Details; Details versus Specificity; Sentence and Paragraph Structure; Geography; Mimetic Description.

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