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In a world awash in screenwriting books, The Science of
Screenwriting provides an alternative approach that will help the
aspiring screenwriter navigate this mass of often contradictory
advice: exploring the science behind storytelling strategies. Paul
Gulino, author of the best-selling Screenwriting: The Sequence
Approach, and Connie Shears, a noted cognitive psychologist, build,
chapter-by-chapter, an understanding of the human
perceptual/cognitive processes, from the functions of our eyes and
ears bringing real world information into our brains, to the
intricate networks within our brains connecting our decisions and
emotions. They draw on a variety of examples from film and
television -- The Social Network, Silver Linings Playbook and
Breaking Bad -- to show how the human perceptual process is
reflected in the storytelling strategies of these filmmakers. They
conclude with a detailed analysis of one of the most successful and
influential films of all time, Star Wars, to discover just how it
had the effect that it had.
In "The Grace Of Saving," her latest book, we follow the amazing
story of Teri Gault from a little girl in Oklahoma all the way to
the bright lights of Hollywood and eventually becoming "America's
Smartest Shopper." During a time of great family need, she
developed a system for drastically reducing grocery bills by
rethinking the very notion of the term "saving," that simple and
timeless virtue. Her system which provides for huge grocery savings
is at the heart of her website, TheGroceryGame.com and has helped
hundreds of thousands of people. The book also includes many great
savings tips.
The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is
sustaining audience involvement from the opening sequence to the
closing credits. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on
an often-overlooked tools can be key in solving this problem. A
screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about
fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving the dramatic aspects
of each of these sequences in detail, a writer can more easily
conquer the challenges posed by the script as a whole. The sequence
approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the
1950s, most screenplays were formatted with sequences explicitly
identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at such
film schools as the University of Southern California, Columbia
University and Chapman University. This book explains the concept
and then provides a sequence analysis of eleven significant feature
films made between 1940 and 2000: The Shop Around the Corner,
Double Indemnity, Nights of Cabiria, North by Northwest, Lawrence
of Arabia, The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Toy
Story, Air Force One, Being John Malkovich and The Fellowship of
the Ring.
In a world awash in screenwriting books, The Science of
Screenwriting provides an alternative approach that will help the
aspiring screenwriter navigate this mass of often contradictory
advice: exploring the science behind storytelling strategies. Paul
Gulino, author of the best-selling Screenwriting: The Sequence
Approach, and Connie Shears, a noted cognitive psychologist, build,
chapter-by-chapter, an understanding of the human
perceptual/cognitive processes, from the functions of our eyes and
ears bringing real world information into our brains, to the
intricate networks within our brains connecting our decisions and
emotions. They draw on a variety of examples from film and
television -- The Social Network, Silver Linings Playbook and
Breaking Bad -- to show how the human perceptual process is
reflected in the storytelling strategies of these filmmakers. They
conclude with a detailed analysis of one of the most successful and
influential films of all time, Star Wars, to discover just how it
had the effect that it had.
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