Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 -- Receiving and Organizing Notes -- Critical Feedback -- Chapter 2 -- Interpreting Notes -- Reading Tea Leaves -- Chapter 3 -- Annotated Draft -- Your Reference Guide -- Chapter 4 -- Game Plan -- Creating a Road Map for the Rewrite -- Chapter 5 -- Index Card Method of Outlining -- The Visual Outline -- Chapter 6 -- Brainstorming & Problem Solving -- Tools to Generate New Ideas -- Chapter 7 -- Writing your First Pass -- Getting Started -- Chapter 8 -- Character Pass -- The Emotional Core -- Chapter 9 -- Story Pass -- The Emotional Underpinning -- Chapter 10 -- Plot and Structure Pass -- Architecture and Design -- Chapter 11 -- Feedback on the First Pass -- Checking-in -- Chapter 12 -- Revised Game Plan -- Planning for the Next Series of Passes -- Chapter 13 -- Relationship Pass -- Interconnecting -- Chapter 14 -- Obstacles and Complications Pass -- Making Life Much More Difficult -- Chapter 15 -- Scene Pass -- The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts -- Chapter 16 -- Consistent Pass -- Motivated Actions -- Chapter 17 -- Dialogue Pass -- Less is More -- Chapter 18 -- Polish Pass -- Details, Details, Details -- Chapter 19 -- Final Notes -- Is it Ready to be Sent Out? -- Chapter 20 -- The Last Read -- One More Time from the Beginning -- Chapter 21 -- Working with Directors, Producers and Executives -- Patience, Patience, Patience -- Chapter 22 -- Becoming a Script Doctor -- Revising Other Writers' Works -- Appendices: -- Screenwriters on Screenwriting -- Interviews: -- Robert Towne -- Chinatown, Shampoo, The Firm, Mission Impossible -- Frank Pierson -- Cool Hand Luke, Dog Day Afternoon, Mad Men -- Susannah Grant -- Pocahontas, Erin Brockovich, The Soloist -- Index of Craft Tools -- Anatomy of a Rewrite -- Studio Notes -- Annotated Draft -- The Essential 50 Questions -- Character Wheels -- Game Plans -- Beat Sheet -- Index Cards.
Summary:
"If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is his or her ability to rewrite successfully. But rewriting can be confusing and difficult even for the most battle-hardened screenwriter. From the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy and The Secret of My Success comes a comprehensive guide that explores the art and craft of rewriting. Jack Epps, Jr. guides the writer to identify the weaknesses in his screenplay by using the pass method to solve individual story or character problems one at a time, rather than the common model of trying to fix everything in one giant rewrite, by taking the writer on a journey from First Draft to Final Polish. With Screenwriting is Rewriting, Epps gives practical tips on organizing notes, creating a game plan, and then executing a series of precision focused passes that address the major story, character and plot issues. He includes sample notes, game plans and beat sheets from the his own work on films such as Sister Act, Tootsie and Top Gun. Also included are exclusive interviews about rewriting with screenwriting masters Robert Towne (Chinatown), Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon), and Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), and a companion website containing an instructor's guide for a 10 week term or 16 week semester"-- Provided by publisher. "A step-by-step guide that takes the mystery out of rewriting and leads the writer through a series of focused passes which address the core fundamentals of screenwriting resulting in a polished, professional screenplay"-- Provided by publisher.
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