{"id":3526,"date":"2008-11-24T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2008-11-24T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T13:13:19","slug":"the-elements-of-screenwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/the-elements-of-screenwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elements of Screenwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elements of screenwriting by Syd Field. This course available as an instructional DVD from the FinalDraft.com website.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I &#8211; Getting Started<\/strong><br \/>\nForming the idea into a dramatic entity with beginning, middle and end:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Isolating the idea<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Creating the subject<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Breaking it down into action and character<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The nature of screenplay structure<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Structuring your story line<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Writing the four-page treatment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II &#8211; Creating Character<\/strong><br \/>\nThe heart, soul and nervous system of your screenplay:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 What makes a good character<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The essence of dramatic need<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Creating the character biography<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The tools of character<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The circle of being<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III &#8211; Writing The Screenplay<\/strong><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what we do and how we do it:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Set up the story<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Write the story<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Structure the screenplay into acts<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Stress the importance of the first ten pages<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Determine the plot points<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Set up and prepare Act II<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Establish Pinch I and Pinch II<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Establish the sub-dramatic context<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part IV &#8211; Rewriting the Screenplay<\/strong><br \/>\nAll writing is rewriting:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Approaching the rewrite<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Rethinking what you have written<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Redefining and re-establishing the theme, premise, and dramatic action<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The tools of rewriting<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Discovering character through action<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sharpening and focusing character<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Setting up and paying off the elements of the story line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elements of screenwriting by Syd Field. This course available as an instructional DVD from the FinalDraft.com website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[829,835,824,823,825,822,820,821,828,826,838,833,834,832,819,830,827,837,836,831],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-US","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}