Title: Screenwriting Unchained: Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure (With The Story-Type Method)
Publisher: Screenplay Unlimited Publishing
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0995498113
ISBN 13: 9780995498112
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 0.85 pounds

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Synopsis

Are your screenplays held hostage by rules that don't fit your story?

Most screenwriting books hand you a formula and tell you to follow it regardless of what you're writing. Screenwriting Unchained does the opposite.

In this groundbreaking first volume of the Story-Type Method� series, Emmanuel Oberg identifies three main story-types — plot-led, character-led, theme-led — and shows how each demands a different structural approach. The result is a flexible, powerful framework that works for any screenplay, from independent crossover to studio blockbuster, for anyone involved in the Film and TV industry: writers, directors, producers, development execs and showrunners.

Identify your story-type and solve most structural problems from the outset
Replace rigid, page-number-based structure with a flexible dramatic three-act approach that fits your story
Use dramatic irony, surprise, mystery and suspense to keep audiences genuinely engaged
Deepen what's at stake with a fresh take on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Use the fractal aspect of structure to design not just the whole story but every part of it — and banish the sagging middle for good
Approach any rewrite creatively and efficiently with The Rewrite Stuff: 12 Ways to a Stronger Screenplay

Including case studies from films as diverse as Gravity, Silver Linings Playbook, Crash, The Intouchables, Birdman, Edge of Tomorrow, L.A. Confidential and The Lives of Others, Screenwriting Unchained will transform the way you write, read, pitch, design, assess and develop screenplays. Guaranteed.

"Without question the most useful book in the marketplace on the writing and development process."
— Dan MacRae, Head of UK Development, StudioCanal

"The lightsabre of screenwriting books: the Story-Type Method cuts through to the essence and guides you when you are lost."
— Matthias Hoene, Writer/Director (Cockneys vs Zombies, Warrior's Gate)

About the Author

Emmanuel Oberg is a screenwriter, author and script consultantwith more than twenty years of experience in the Film and TV industry. Afterselling a first screenplay to Warner Bros, he has been commissioned as a writerby StudioCanal, Working Title / Universal, Gold Circle and Film4. He has alsodesigned an internationally acclaimed 3-day Advanced Development Workshop and2-day modules on thriller, comedy, animation and TV Series, all based on the Story-TypeMethod. He delivers them with passion to storytellers around the world.Emmanuel lives in the UK with his wife and their two daughters. His film and TVagent is Rachel Holroyd at Casarotto in London.

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