**software :
Dramatica
Pro [reviewer:] "It is so
wonderfull because it doesn´t
write a script for you. Dramatica collects your ideas and while it does
that you get thousands of new ideas. There´s nothing more
because
there shouldn´t be. It helped me to think and to give my last
screenplay´s
characters much more depth than I ever expected and the fascinating
thing
is that you do all that by yourself. Even if you are a very experienced
script writer it can never hurt to run your final draft through
Dramatica."
Final
Draft 6.0 "I've been
a Final Draft user for
several years now, since their first Windows release. While every
screenwriting
program screams in their ads that more people use their software than
any
other screenwriting program, I can say from the Hollywood professionals
I have met over the years, the majority truly use Final Draft. I have
been
to their corporate office and dealt with their service department, and
this company is a class act. ... For those would-be television writers,
Final Draft also comes with templates which are preformatted in the
style
of some of the biggest TV shows on TV (ER, Friends, Everybody Loves
Raymond,
Malcolm In The Middle, South Park), for free." [review by
filmjerk.com/screenwriting.html]
Movie
Magic Screenwriter 2000
[reviewer:] 'If
you're even thinking about screenwriting, buy this! I almost cried when
I started using it - it's simply magnificent. If you know how much a
pain
"formatting" scripts is, you'll cry with joy, too. The inventors of
this
software have made writing scripts as easy as writing a letter to
someone.
It's simplicity makes it possible, no - a sheer delight- to create as
you
write in correct screen format.'
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...video
/ dvd:
Barton
Fink
[amazon.com
review:] "... gleefully
attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it,
portraying
the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro plays
the
title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who
is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie
for
palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but
his
desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds
himself
holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost
immediately
afflicted with writer's block..."
Good
Will Hunting
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**books
|
 Diana Ossana - co-writer of “Brokeback
Mountain”
I think the thing that startled me the most was the emotions the story
[by Annie Proulx] made me feel.
It affected me as a woman, and I felt it would surely affect anyone
else, no matter what their sexual orientation. The feelings are
universal - love, loss, pain, regret.
Through the centuries, people haven't changed in their wants and needs
and desires.
|
Larry
[co-writer Larry McMurtry] and I have written two novels, and many more
screenplays and teleplays, together. ... We're really very different
from one another. ... He seems more interested in
the women characters than the men, and seems to feel that I have more
intuitiveness about the men than he does.
Diana
Ossana - producer and co-writer with Larry McMurtry of screenplay
of “Brokeback Mountain” - quotes from Focus Features Production Notes
photo
by Michael Caulfield / WireImage
> book: Brokeback
Mountain: Story to Screenplay -- by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry,
Diana Ossana
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Alan
Ball. American
Beauty: The Shooting Script
Marcie
Begleiter. From
Word To Image: Storyboarding And The Filmmaking Process
"In
this storyboarding book written
directly for writers and directors, Begleiter explains how to use
different
skills to create sketches, thumb-nails and diagrams which convey
movements,
perspective and angles required to create feature, TV, and interactive
projects. It includes many visuals, some never seen before from
filmmakers
such as Alfred Hitchcock, George Roy Hill and Cecil B. DeMille.
Begleiter,
a Los Angeles-based writer, artist and educator, specializes in
pre-visualization
and has worked in the film, TV, and interactive industries. She has had
many seminars and workshops for filmmakers and artists involved in
visual
storytelling, making visual communication accessible." [review from
animationmagazine.net]
K.
A. Berney. Contemporary
Women Dramatists
James
Bonnet. Stealing
Fire from the Gods : A Dynamic New Story Model for Writers
and Filmmakers
[from
author site:]
In the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, James Bonnet also
explores
the connection between great stories and the creative unconscious
source
of a great stories real power and meaning, and the significance that
connection
has for writers and other storymakers.
Sara
Caldwell & Marie-Eve Kielson. So
You Want To Be A Screenwriter: How to Face the Fears and Take
the Risks - "This
book pretty much lives up to
its title, and is extremely appropriate for anyone starting out as a
screenwriter.
It could also prove inspirational for those in the trade who get stuck,
rejected or burned out. Using writers from wide-ranging backgrounds,
the
authors set out to prove that neither age, race, sex, nor geography
should
dissuade anyone from screenwriting." [Writers Guild of Canada review]
Joel
Coen, Ethan Coen. Barton
Fink and Miller's Crossing O
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Cameron
Crowe. Almost
Famous [screenplay]
Matt
Damon, Ben Affleck. Good
Will Hunting : A Screenplay
Alexis
Greene. Women
Who Write Plays : Interviews With Contemporary American Dramatists
Susan
Bullington Katz. Conversations
with Screenwriters
[reader:]
"Katz is a screenwriter
talking to screenwriters about writing; she asks questions from the
perspective
of an insider and gets real answers as opposed to the surfacey stuff
you
tend to get in shorter newspaper interviews. My favorite? Probably the
slightly testy interview with Mike Leigh talking about how he used
improvisational
input from his cast in creating SECRETS AND LIES. There isn't an ounce
of fat in this book. Smart, useful stuff."
Josh
Levine. David
E. Kelley : The Man Behind Ally McBeal
Helena
Lumme. Screenwriters
: America's Storytellers in Portrait "salutes the
men and women
who have created hundreds of America's most beloved films. For the
first
time in the history of the much-documented film industry, this landmark
book celebrates - in spectacular photographs and in the screenwriters'
own unforgettable words - 47 of the film world's best writers including
18 Academy Award winners and 36 nominees for Best Screenplay."
Robert
Mckee Story:
Substance, Structure, Style,& the Principles of Screenwriting
Dennis
Palumbo Writing
from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks
to Release
the Writer Within
Elaine
Partnow. The
Female Dramatist : Profiles of Women Playwrights from Around
the World
from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Skip
Press. Complete
Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting
Ken
Rotcop, James K. Shea. The
Perfect Pitch : How to Sell Yourself and Your Movie Idea to
Hollywood
Linda
Seger Making
a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters
"In any creative endeavor,
a knowledge of craft by itself, no matter how sound or thorough, is
simply
not sufficient to allow for the creation and growth of truly original
work.
While craft may provide structural tools, it does not address the most
basic and universal element of all artistic work-the creative process.
Designed not just to awaken creativity but to teach the process of
being
a creative thinker..."
Wallace
Shawn My
Dinner With Andre "The world of
my
imagination was becoming a prison... the real world, with its bounteous
profusion of fascinating everyday-ness, was lying resplendent outside
the
gates, winking at me, beyond my grasp. I had generously shown on the
stage
my interior life as a raging beast, but my exterior life as a mediocre
human and dilettante of normal intelligence remained unchronicled. And
although my conscious, rational self had cried for expression for
years,
my unconscious self still kept a brutal grip on my pen. I knew -- I knew
-- that beneath my work's primeval, hysterical façade, there
was
a calm little writer in an armchair just waiting to burst forth..."
J.
Michael Straczynski The
Complete Book of Scriptwriting
Thom
Taylor. The
Big Deal : Hollywood's Million-Dollar Spec Script Market
Robert
Towne. Chinatown
and the Last Detail: 2 Screenplays
Richard
Walter Screenwriting:
The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television
Richard
Walter. The
Whole Picture : Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the
New Hollywood
Richard
Walter. Escape
from Film School (fiction)
"The
chairman of UCLA's film- and
television-writing program debuts with (what else?) the story of a
hapless
film student who stumbles into fortune and, eventually, modest fame.
Queens-born
Stuart Thomas is fleeing the Vietnam-era draft when he bursts into the
University of Southern California's Department of Cinema in August of
1966.
He's just looking for a place to hide, but he winds up with a student
deferment
and work on a student-made porn film." // "Sassy, savvy, and
super-quick,
Richard Walter's mind is a pleasure to follow in any context, and his
perspective
on the biz only heightens the fun!" -- [from Kirkus review by
screenwriter
Ron Bass]
Brooke
A. Wharton. The
Writer Got Screwed (But Didn't Have To) : A Guide to the
Legal and
Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Industry
Billy
Wilder, Cameron Crowe. Conversations
With Wilder
[The
New York Times Book Review,
Sarah Kerr:] "... devoted to fascinating and detailed discussions of
the
work, with ... Wilder dispensing wise little jewels that add up to an
inspired
manual on how to write and direct a film."
Dana
Williams. Contemporary
African American Female Playwrights
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