This multi-DVD set will contain more than ten hours of material, including at least an hour of original graphics. This product has been a culmination of almost a year of work and is my attempt to create the most in-depth and diverse approach to screenwriting craft. You can save up to $100 by taking advantage of this presale offer.
If you feel like there is something missing from your understanding of screenwriting, this DVD set will fill the gap. This DVD derives every imaginable screenwriting craft topic from the most basic elements of narrative. Regardless of your skill level or process, this class will complement your approach and accelerate your screenwriting growth.
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ABOUT JIM
Jim Mercurio directed the first 41 DVDS in the Screenwriting Expo Series. As a story analyst, he has A-List and Oscar-nominated clients. He is currently writing the first-ever screenwriting book that focuses solely on scene writing for Linden Publishing:
Scene Writing: 14 Steps to a Better Screenplay. He has made two feature films (one as director, one as producer) from scripts he discovered in contests he administered.
TOPICS COVERED:
Alley-Oop, Character, Arc, Character Orchestration, Cinematic Prose Style, Complexity/Multi-tasking Craft, Concept, Dialogue, Dilemma, Ellipses, Essence of Introductions, Essence of Surprise, Climax and Change, Exploiting Concept, Exposition, Externalization of Dilemma, F-d up Permutation, Genre, Killer Endings, Meet-Cute, Mood versus Tone, Monologues, Motifs and Props, Reframe, Reversals, Rhetoric in Dialogue, Scene Writing, Sequences, Setting and Location, Shurtleff's Guideposts, Structure, Subtext, Theme, Theme Line, Thinking like a Director/Actor/DP/Editor, Transitions …and jillions more.
SOME OF THE MOVIES REFERENCED:
Avatar, Bicycle Thieves, Blade Runner, Blades of Glory, Breaking Away, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Dark Knight, Death Wish , Erin Brokovich, Frantic, Freaky Friday, Gattaca, Gran Torino, Harold and Maude, I am Legend, LA Confidential, Last House on the Left, Legally Blonde, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 3, Lost In Translation, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Moneyball, No Country for Old Men, Notorious, Nutty Professor, Once Upon a Time, In the West, Parallax View, Pirates of the Caribbean, Purple Rose of Cairo, Scream, Se7en, Seven Pounds, Shutter Island, Superbad, Superman, Taken, The Help, The Hurt Locker, Torn Curtain, Young Adult
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