The Art of Screenwriting: Narrative and Structure

With Scott Frank (Minority Report, Out of Sight, Get Shorty) & Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York, Hannibal, Schindler's List)

This program teaches how to get started, the main idea and servicing it, finding a movies spine, sources of inspiration, outlining, characters' relationship with structure, description, research, instinct vs. technique, writing a script vs. selling one. Subjects covered include: How to tell a good story, which stories are worth telling and which aren't, character arcs; real and illusory, finding a movie's spine, the use of myth and theme as organizing concepts.