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Writing in Pictures (Vintage Original)
Joseph Mcbride

Writing in Pictures is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay.Seasoned screenwriter and writing teacher Joseph McBride breaks down the process into a series of easy, approachable tasks, focusing on literary adaptation as the best way to learn the basics and avoiding the usual formulaic approach. With its wealth of useful tips, along with colorful insights from master screenwriters past and present, this book is invaluable for anyone who wants to learn the craft of screen storytelling.CONTENTSIntroduction: Who Needs Another Book on Screenwriting?  Part I: Storytelling1: So Why Write Screenplays?2: What Is Screenwriting? 3: Stories: What They Are and How to Find Them4: Ten Tips for the Road Ahead Part II: Adaptation5: Breaking the Back of the Book: or, The Art of AdaptationSTEP 1: THE STORY OUTLINE6: Research and Development STEP 2: THE ADAPTATION OUTLINE7: The Elements of ScreenwritingSTEP 3: THE CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY8: Exploring Your Story and How to Tell ItSTEP 4: THE TREATMENT Part III: Production9: Who Needs Formatting?10: Actors Are Your Medium 11: Dialogue as ActionSTEP 5: THE STEP OUTLINE12: The Final Script13: Epilogue: Breaking into Professional Filmmaking Appendix A: The Basic Steps in the Screenwriting ProcessAppendix B: “To Build A Fire” by Jack LondonSelected BibliographyAcknowledgments Index   


384 pages
Published February 28th 2012 by Vintage 
Review
"Impressively readable, unpretentious, and remarkably useful. Based on a lifetime of experience and observation, as well as conversations with some of the greats (like Orson Welles, John Ford & Howard Hawks), Joe McBride's comprehensive yet very succinct work should become a standard text."--Peter Bogdanovich, screenwriter, director, film historian "I must confess that" "I had never read a how-to book straight through for the sheer pleasure of it, and I never expected to--until I got my hands on the splendid "Writing in Pictures." . . . A word of warning: in this book you will "not" find the Six Keys to Compelling Characters, the Seven Secrets of Successful Plotting, or the Eight Jungian Archetypes No Studio Executive Can Resist. There are no magic formulae here--but if you do have a story to tell, this book will give you the solid practical advice you need to tell it in the most effective way. "Writing in Pictures" is a short course in how to think cinematically. It will change the way you write. It will change the way you watch."-- Sam Hamm, screenwriter of" Batman, Batman Returns, "and "Homecoming" "If this isn't the greatest screenwriting book ever, I'll eat my hat! " Writing in Pictures" is the kind of how-to book Ben Hecht would have written on that subject: a Socratic tour of the profession the novice aspires to, filled with screenwriting lore, for illustration and entertainment. If you want to judge someone's work by how personal it is, this may just turn out to be Joe McBride's masterpiece."" "--Bill Krohn, author of "Hitchcock at Work" and Hollywood correspondent, "Cahiers du Cinema" "In this unique contribution to the screenplay literature, Joe McBride invites writers to connect themselves to literary tradition, relying less on formulas and more on intelligent uses of classic storytelling technique. He blends general precepts, concrete examples, hard-won experience, and lively anecdotes into something more than the usual