Crazy screenwriting secrets : how to capture a global audience /

Title:

Crazy screenwriting secrets : how to capture a global audience /

Author:

Lin, Weiko, 1975- author.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

Funny farm: plowing story seeds -- Signature dishes: genres -- Firing up the story: protagonist and antagonist -- Three-course meal: movie structure -- Recipes: the step outline -- Appetizer: act one; whet the palate -- Main course: act two; savory climax -- Dessert: act three; satisfaction -- Presentation: organic action and dialogue -- Emotions: moving stories before moving scenes -- Therapy: digesting notes and rewriting -- Process: always be writing -- Workflow: from screenplay to theaters -- The team: managers and agents -- Breaking in: film schools and competitions -- Collaboration: working as partners -- Protection: registration and copyright -- Rights of artists: Writers Guild of America -- Global franchise: connection and consistency? -- Extracting culture: inclusion of perspectives -- Awakening: Crazy rich Asians; the new wave -- Chinese flavors: adapting 5,000 years of culture for global audiences -- Lost in translation: creating stories for mainland China -- Fusion: China coproductions -- Have you eaten? Chinese cultural and social etiquettes -- To live: falling into place.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
PN1996 .L55 2019 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for VM428 -1: Feature Writing Workshop (Visual and Media Arts: Clarke)