Screenwriting Unchained: Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure (With the Story-Type Method)

In Screenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg sets out a dogma-busting, innovative method for developing screenplays

This practical, no-nonsense guide leaves behind one-size-fits-all story theories and offers a refreshingly modern approach to story structure, making it a precious resource for anyone involved creatively in the Film and TV industry (or aspiring to be): writers, directors, producers, development execs, showrunners and, more generally, storytellers eager to reach a wide audience at home and abroad without compromising their creative integrity.

Oberg identifies three main story-types―plot-led, character-led, theme-led―then reveals in a clear, conversational style how each of these impacts on the structure of any story and how we can use a single set of tools to develop any screenplay, from an independent crossover to a studio blockbuster. Crucially, he also looks at hybrids and exceptions, those unique gems that don't fit any of the story-types but still work beautifully.

This leads to the Story-Type Method®, a powerful yet flexible way to handle the script development process. Oberg's inspiring framework that doesn't tell filmmakers what to write and when, but focuses instead on why some tools and principles have stood the test of time, and how to use them in the 21st century.