Kallas proposes an original approach to writing for the screen. Both theory and method aims at exciting the imagination to inspire and dramatize stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Accompanying exercises support the...
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Kallas proposes an original approach to writing for the screen. Both theory and method aims at exciting the imagination to inspire and dramatize stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Accompanying exercises support the book and enable writers to create stories out of emotions and images. COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- Why Creative Screenwriting? -- The Art of Creative Writing -- The Idiosyncrasies of Audiovisual Storytelling -- The Methods of Creative Screenwriting: Technique and Rules of the Game -- PRE-CREDIT SEQUENCE: THEORETICAL ROOTS OF CREATIVE SCREENWRITING -- Creative Screenwriting in the Context of Prevailing Theories of Drama and Screenwriting - a Little Review -- The Old Struggle between Poetics and Philosophy: It all Goes Back to Aristotle or What we Owe Plato and Aristotle -- THE BEGINNING: THE TRICK OF CREATIVE SCREENWRITING -- The Trick of the Commonplace and the Lack of Responsibility -- The Structure of the Screenplay: First Sequence (the Character) -- The Trick of the Status Perspective -- The Structure of the Screenplay: Second Sequence (the Conflict) -- The Trick of Failure: The Courage to Fail and the Law of Quantity -- The Structure of the Screenplay: Third Sequence (the First Dramatic Question) -- In Remembrance -- THE MIDDLE: TECHNIQUES OF CREATIVE SCREENWRITING -- Gathering Material and the Combination Technique -- The Structure of the Screenplay: Fourth Sequence (the Second Dramatic Question) -- The Technique of the Conditional Question -- Working with both Hemispheres of the Brain -- The Technique of Free Association and Automatic Writing -- The Technique of Defining the Problem -- The Structure of the Screenplay: Fifth Sequence (the Middle) -- Working with Images -- Working with Music and Sound -- The Technique of Conflict -- Working with Dreams -- Working with Emotions -- The Structure of the Screenplay: Sixth Sequence (the Theme) -- Working with our Experiences -- The Technique of the Reversal -- Working with First Love -- Working with Fairy Tales -- Working with Themes -- Working with Shadows -- Working with the Look of a Film -- Working with Subtext.
