The Screenplay

FOREWORD / Douglas Day Stewart = ix PREFACE = xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xv INTRODUCTION = 1 Chapter 1. THE STATIC IMAGE = 15 Linear and Layered Movement "Framed" Space Lines Shapes Colors Light Texture Space Lenses Camera Position Montage Image Selection Tensions and Resolutions Balance and Unbalance Rhythms Contrasts The Way Your Eyes See Chapter 2. STRUCTURING FILMIC TIME = 41 Ellipsis Classical Dramatic Structure Acts Sequence Structuring Scene Structuring Shot Structuring Chapter 3. ELEMENTS OF FILMIC TIME = 85 Condensing Time Expanding Time Camera Speed Audio and Visual Time-Tilling Events Montage Transitions Reorganizing Time Chapter 4. ELEMENTS OF FILMIC SPACE = 115 Viewer Space Viewer Point of View Linear and Layered Movement The Expressive Power of Juxtaposing Images and Shots Composition in Motion Chapter 5. FILMIC ELEMENTS OF MOTION = 139 Natural Motions Induced Motion Expressive Motion Structural Motions Chapter 6. IMAGERY = 157 Word Symbols Picture Symbols Associative Images Mise-en-scene A Flow of Images Chapter 7. SOUND = 169 Dialogue Narration Situational Sound Expressive Sound Symbolic Sound Music Chapter 8. CHARACTERIZATION = 187 Unique Aspects of Filmic Characterization Actions Meeting Your Screenplay Characters "Good" Screenplay Characters Character Functions Character Orchestration Personality Development Character Development Back to Cathy Structuring Characters is a Process People Notebook Character Profile Character Situations Characterization Through the Use of Filmic Elements Chapter 9. THEME = 221 Definitions Theme Statements Theme Articulations Guiding Principles Theme Sources Storytelling is Theme Telling Shapes of Stories Non-stories Chapter 10. DESIGNING THE PAGE = 231 Traditional Screenplay Format Page Design The Words Production Instructions to be Included— and Excluded Chapter 11. THE CREATING PROCESS = 243 Your "Storyhouse" The Creating Process Controlling the Creating Process Truth in the Arts A Final Note Chapter 12. THE LAYERS OF WRITING = 267 Drafts Feedback Guard Your "Silver Arrows" Obsessive Rewriting APPENDIX A: AN EXAMPLE OF IDEA SKETCHING = 271 APPENDIX B: FILMIC ELEMENTS = 276 GLOSSARY = 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 283 INDEX = 289

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