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How to build a great screenplay : a master class in storytelling for film / David Howard.

by Howard, David, 1947-

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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Motion picture authorship.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol052/2004051467.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004051467.html

xvi, 445 p. ; 24 cm.

Story and storytelling -- The story -- The telling of the story -- Building stories -- The creation of drama -- Foundations -- Carpentry and craftsmanship -- Time and storytelling -- Basic dramatic structure -- What is drama? -- The three acts -- Sequences -- Crucial moments -- Subplots -- The classical screenplay structure -- Beyond classical dramatic structure -- The single unbreakable rule of drama -- Anything but classical screenplay structure -- The limits of classical, the beginnings of revolutionary -- How to shake up classical structure--and why -- Writing and work strategies -- Before the first draft -- The first draft -- After the first draft.

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