The last word
Subtitle: definitive answers to all your screenwriting questions
By: Tom Lazarus
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions; Wiese Productions, Michael
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Studio City, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781615931194
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; Motion picture authorship
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionAcknowledgements'A' Story Acts of GodAction Adapting Novels A Kick in the Ass Antagonists Appropriate Language Army Takes the Town Backstory Being a Screenwriter Be SpecificBookends Calling Shots Camera GeographyCAPITALIZING CharacterCliches Coincidences and AccidentsComputers, Phone Calls and Letters Common Screenwriting Misteaks Communicating What You Want To Crank It Up!Default Positions as a Writer DescriptionDialogueDisclosure of Information Dreams Endings Establishing Scenes Exposition Every Scene Must Move The Story ForwardFlashbacks Format For God's Sake, Hurry! Genre ExpectationsGiving Script Notes How We Access Your Script How Long Should my Script Be?How Long Should My Scenes Be?Internal ProcessesIt's A ProcessIt's Not About Your WritingLet Your Actors Act Less is More Log Line and Scene ListsMain CharactersMetaphors and Similes MontagesMorris The Explainer Movie Recommendations My Script Feels Familiar - What Do I do?NamesNarrative Pull Non-linear StorytellingNovelistic WritingOn The Nose Writing Open Story versus Closed Stories Overhearing Pace Parentheses Perfectionism PitchingBreaking News - The Author PitchesPlay the Joke Positive Reinforcement Questions to Ask Resonance RewritingRhythms of Your ScriptRising Action Road Movies Rules Scene DescriptionScene List Scenes You Don't WriteScript Consultants Script Notes Sell itSet UpShocking!Showing Rather than Telling Slow Motion Smash Cut Speaking Out Loud Splintering Time Starting Your Screenplay FastStructure The Deal The Journey Theme The Scene - Format Time ClocksTrailer ScenesTranscending Yourself TransitionsThree Act StructureTwists and Turns Urgency Voice OverVocabularyWeighting Your Writing We See, We Hear We Write Movies AboutWhat Do You Want Us To Feel?What Hooks Them?What Should You Be Writing AboutWriter's Block Writer's MantraWriting a Page TurnerWrong Words in Write PlacesPostscriptTom Lazarus - Script ConsultantTom Lazarus Biography.