A master class in dramatic writing : theater, film, and television /
Neipris, Janet
A master class in dramatic writing : theater, film, and television / Janet Neipris. - pages cm
Includes index.
Preface: the moral responsibility of the artist -- Introduction: The writer's life -- Week 1: Beginnings -- Week 2: Creating complex characters -- Week 3: Dialogue -- Week 4: Escalating conflicts -- sixty questions when writing a dramatic piece -- Week 6: Putting it all together -- Week 7: Endings -- Week 8: Checkpoints -- Week 9: Rewriting -- Week 10: Adaptation -- Week 11: Comedy -- Week 12: The fifteen habits of successful dramatic writers -- Week 13: Lessons from master teachers and students -- Week 14: To be a writer.
A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer.
Including new material alongside revised, extended selections from Janet Neipris' original and much loved book To Be A Playwright, this volume takes the writer up to a first draft and rewrite of a dramatic work. The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation.
[amazon.com]
9781138918528 (hardback) 9781138918542 (pbk.) 9781315688435 (ebook)
2015049545
Playwriting.
Drama--Technique.
Motion picture authorship.
Television authorship.
PN1661 / .N445 2016
808.2/
A master class in dramatic writing : theater, film, and television / Janet Neipris. - pages cm
Includes index.
Preface: the moral responsibility of the artist -- Introduction: The writer's life -- Week 1: Beginnings -- Week 2: Creating complex characters -- Week 3: Dialogue -- Week 4: Escalating conflicts -- sixty questions when writing a dramatic piece -- Week 6: Putting it all together -- Week 7: Endings -- Week 8: Checkpoints -- Week 9: Rewriting -- Week 10: Adaptation -- Week 11: Comedy -- Week 12: The fifteen habits of successful dramatic writers -- Week 13: Lessons from master teachers and students -- Week 14: To be a writer.
A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer.
Including new material alongside revised, extended selections from Janet Neipris' original and much loved book To Be A Playwright, this volume takes the writer up to a first draft and rewrite of a dramatic work. The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation.
[amazon.com]
9781138918528 (hardback) 9781138918542 (pbk.) 9781315688435 (ebook)
2015049545
Playwriting.
Drama--Technique.
Motion picture authorship.
Television authorship.
PN1661 / .N445 2016
808.2/