Michael Tierno

Semiotics for Screenwriters (eBook, PDF)

Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or "break down" films and study them. You'd like to try this method but ask yourself, "How do I start?" Semiotics for Screenwriters can help you with this daunting task by taking you on a unique journey through 3 classic films - It's a Wonderful Life, Lost in Translation, and Get Out - that shows you the hidden universal language of plot, character, and theme at work in them. This method will reveal the mechanics of cinema story, then show you how to apply this knowledge to your own screenwriting.

Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology. In this book you'll learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting your own screenplays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501390975
• Artikelnr.: 69635599

Autorenporträt

Michael Tierno is Professor Emeritus of Film and Video Production at East Carolina University, USA. He is the author of Location and Postproduction Sound for Low Budget Filmmakers (2020) and Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters (2002). He is a narratologist, a former Miramax story analyst, and an award-winning writer and director of independent films, such as Through a Class Darkly (2016), Nocturne, the Girl Who Played Debussy (2010), and Auditions (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction - The Hollywood Movie Breakdown
System with a Semiotics Spin 1. The Semiotics for Screenwriters System 2.
Isotopies, Part I 3. Isotopies, Part II - The Semiotic Square 4. The
Narrative Level 5. The Deep Level of Meaning 6. The Breakdown of Three
Specimen Movies 7. Demonstration of Using the Tools to Develop a Feature
Screenplay - Through the Night 8. Using Final Draft Beat Board and Outline
Editor with the Semiotics Tools Closing Thoughts Bibliography Index