Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics: Techniques for Adapting Books, Comics and Real-Life Stories into Screenplays - Williams, Eric R. (Ohio University, USA) - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138948853 - July 27, 2017
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Williams, Eric R. (Ohio University, USA)
Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics: Techniques for Adapting Books, Comics and Real-Life Stories into Screenplays 1st edition

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Once you understand the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere. Whether it comes from a favorite children?s book, a summer novel you discover accidentally, a news story that catches your imagination, or a chapter from your own life ? advanced screenwriting strategies should now guide you through your first adaptation. In Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics, award-winning screenwriter Eric Williams uses examples from award-winning screenplays to explain new storytelling techniques. His real-world examples illustrate a range of advanced approaches ? including new ways to identify and craft tension, how to reimagine structure and character, and how to strengthen emotional depth in your characters and in the audience. Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics teaches readers new ways to engage with source material in order to make successful adaptation decisions, regardless of the source material.

The book offers:

Three detailed examples of award-winning adaptations by the author, including the complete short story and final scripts used in the Voices From the Heartland project; Breakout boxes highlighting modern and historical adaptations and providing examples for each concept discussed in the book; More than fifty charts providing easy-to-use visual representations of complex concepts; New screenwriting techniques developed by the author, including the Triangle of Knowledge, the Storyteller?s Parallax, and the idea of Super Genres as part of a Screenwriters Taxonomy.

350 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 27, 2017
ISBN13 9781138948853
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 320
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   750 g
Language English  
Illustrator Ayres, Tyler

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