Weiko Lin

Crazy Screenwriting Secrets (eBook, ePUB)

How to Capture A Global Audience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through a "Crazy" approach in writing the feature screenplay, the first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid script. In the second half, the book covers professional business side of the ever-changing industry by taking the reader through the work flow of Hollywood and explores how to work creatively with international countries like China in producing movies that resonate with a global audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Wiese Productions
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615933112
• Artikelnr.: 70320070

Autorenporträt

Native fluent in Mandarin, Weiko is currently developing a Disney Plus Asia Pacific original series and a feature World War II biopic with Mad Chance (AMERICAN SNIPER) attached to produce.

Previously, Weiko adapted New York Times best-selling memoir RIVER TOWN by MacArthur Fellow Peter Hessler for Fugitive Films and director Lu Chuan (Disney's BORN IN CHINA) and a series pilot based on a Penguin YA novel for Super Deluxe. He has written projects for The Mark Gordon Company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Ivanhoe Pictures/SK Global, Don Mischer Productions, and Wanda Pictures. Credits as original story writer and producer include Chinese romance film 100 DAYS 真愛100天 that world premiered at Hawaii International Film Festival and was an official selection at the 23rd Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Mainland China.

An AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship Finalist, Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award recipient, and Austin Film Festival Playwriting Award Finalist, he earned his M.F.A. in Screenwriting and B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from UCLA. A Fulbright Senior Specialist and Sundance Collab Advisor, Weiko has taught screenwriting at Northwestern University, Emerson College, UCLA Professional Program, and Taipei National University of the Arts. Currently, he is a tenured Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University.

Weiko's book CRAZY SCREENWRITING SECRETS: HOW TO CAPTURE A GLOBAL AUDIENCE is available wherever books are sold and its traditional Chinese edition was published in February 2022 in Greater China with the simplified edition scheduled for 2023 release.

A current-active member of Writers Guild of America West and Dramatist Guild, he is represented by Anonymous Content and United Talent Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Dedication.......................................................................................
vii
Acknowledgments............................................................................
viii
Introduction......................................................................................
xi
Part One
GET CRAZY: Writing Tools
Chapter 1: FUNNY FARM Plowing Story Seeds...............................
3
Chapter 2: SIGNATURE DISHES Genres.................................... 11
Chapter 3: FIRING UP THE STORY Protagonist and Antagonist... 21
Chapter 4: THREE-COURSE MEAL Movie Structure................. 33
Chapter 5: RECIPES The Step
Outline......................................... 40
Part Two
KITCHEN IN THE MADHOUSE:
Screenplay Construction
Chapter 6: APPETIZER Act One-Whet the Palate....................... 49
Chapter 7: MAIN COURSE Act Two-Savory Climax.................... 55
Chapter 8: DESSERT Act Three-Satisfaction................................
59
Chapter 9: PRESENTATION Organic Action and Dialogue........... 65
Chapter 10: EMOTIONS Moving Stories Before Moving Scenes....... 72
Chapter 11: THERAPY Digesting Notes and Rewriting................... 75
Chapter 12: PROCESS Always Be
Writing..................................... 82
Part Three
LEAVING THE ASYLUM: The Writing Profession
Chapter 13: WORKFLOW From Screenplay to Theaters................... 89
Chapter 14: THE TEAM Hollywood Managers and Agents.............. 95
Chapter 15: BREAKING IN Film Schools and Competitions.......... 102
Chapter 16: COLLABORATION Working as Partners................. 111
Chapter 17: PROTECTION Registration and Copyright............... 114
Chapter 18: RIGHTS OF ARTISTS Writers Guild of America........ 116
Part Four
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD:
Universal Movies
Chapter 19: GLOBAL FRANCHISE Connection and Consistency. 121
Chapter 20: EXTRACTING CULTURE Inclusion of Perspectives . 123
Chapter 21: AWAKENING Crazy Rich Asians-The New Wave.... 127
Chapter 22: CHINESE FLAVOR Adapting 5,000 Years of Culture for Global
Audiences 131
Chapter 23: LOST IN TRANSLATION Creating Stories for
Mainland
China......................................................................
141
Chapter 24: FUSION China Coproductions.................................
151
Chapter 25: HAVE YOU EATEN? Chinese Cultural and Social Etiquettes 156
Part Five
THE CRAZY SECRET
Chapter 26: TO LIVE: Falling Into
Place...................................... 165
Glossary..........................................................................................
167
About the
Author............................................................................
169