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Authors: Lew Hunter
ISBN-13: 9780399529863, ISBN-10: 0399529861
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: Revised
Lew Hunter has worked for Columbia, Lorimar, Paramount, Disney, NBC, ABC, and CBS as a writer, producer, and executive. Currently he is Chair Emeritus of the screenwriting department at UCLA, and recently established the Lew Hunter Superior Screenwriting colony in the town of Superior, Nebraska. He lectures regularly throughout the country and internationally.
For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.
Fade in redux | 7 | |
Fade in | 13 | |
Ch. 1 | Ideas | 17 |
Ch. 2 | The two-minute movie | 43 |
Ch. 3 | Building your characters | 71 |
Ch. 4 | The outline for you and "them" | 87 |
Ch. 5 | The act one script | 119 |
Ch. 6 | The act two script | 161 |
Ch. 7 | The act three script | 265 |
Ch. 8 | The rewrite(s) | 313 |
Fade out | 343 | |
Index | 346 | |
About the author | 352 |