First Light Video – The Art of Screenwriting – Volume 4: Adaptation

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First Light Video – The Art of Screenwriting – Volume 4: Adaptation

The Writers Guild Foundation Presents Master Storytellers: Screenwriters On Screenwriting Series
First Light Video is proud to partner with The Writers Guild Foundation in the distribution of their outstanding series, Master Storytellers: Screenwriters On Screenwriting. Professional screen and television writers, as well as aspiring students, have the rare opportunity to learn from master storytellers as they intimately share their creative process, craft virtuosity, and passion for the written word in its marriage to the screen. Three outstanding series have been designed to showcase the writing process from concept to fade-out, with a selection of highly acclaimed writers as recognized by their peers and the most prestigious of Industry awards, including the Oscar™, the Emmy™, the Peabody™, and the Humanitas Prize™.
This program teaches highlighting the good parts and trouble spots, research, visualizing and dramatization, non-fiction vs. fiction, the echo effect, online reasearch vs. physical, changing directions, genre material, staying fresh and externalizing characters’ thoughts. Subjects covered include: What to include. How to avoid the 200 page screenplay. How faithful should you be to the original? Is it easier to adapt fiction or non-fiction, trash or art? Which books, plays and stories will make good movies. How to rectify problems without alienating a book’s fans?
90 min.

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