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Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach  
Author: Paul Gulino
ISBN: 0826415687
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tools can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each of these sequences in detail, a writer can more easily conquer the challenges posed by the script as a whole. The sequence approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the 1950s, most screenplays were formated with sequences explicitly identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at such film schools as the University of Southern California, Columbia University and Chapman University. This book exposes a wide audiences to the approach for the first time, introducing the concept then providing a sequence analysis of eleven significant feature films made between 1940 and 2000. The Shop Around the Corner / Double Indemnity / Nights of Cabiria / North by Northwest / Lawrence of Arabia / The Graduate / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Toy Story / Air Force One / Being John Malkovich / The Fellowship of the Ring




Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach explores an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each of these sequences in detail, a writer can more easily conquer the challenges posed by the script as a whole." The sequence approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the 1950s, most screenplays were formatted with sequences explicitly identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at an increasing number of film schools. This book exposes a wider audience to the approach for the first time, introducing the concept and then providing a sequence analysis of eleven significant feature films made between 1940 and 2001.

SYNOPSIS

Produced screenwriter and playwright Gulino (screenwriting, Chapman U., California) helps screenwriters maintain viewer interest and keep the story moving through the entire script, by explaining the notion of sequences, that a feature film is composed of a series of shorter films. He demonstrates the various ways sequences can work by analyzing 11 popular films. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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