Created by Mitchell Hurwitz for executive producer Ron Howard, the metatextual single-camera Fox sitcom ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT won five Emmys in its first season, including one for its 2003 pilot script. If you're trying your hand at a smart, half-hour original sitcom pilot, this is the perfect show to study first. While introducing the mockumentary style sitcom to American audiences that would later become popular with "The Office," "Modern Family," and "Parks and Recreation," "Arrested Development" followed a traditional sitcom structure of a cold open, two acts, and a tag. Analyzing the debut episode, ScripTipps examines how the series deftly ties together multiple subplots and season-long arcs amidst conflict in perpetually varying but ultimately cyclical permutations that had fans successfully demand the show’s return eight years after it was canceled. ABOUT SCRIPTIPPS ScripTipps helps aspiring screenwriters learn the craft of screenwriting through in-depth analyses of select screenplays that exhibit excellence in story structure, character development, and scene construction. Each ScripTipps ebook analyzes one movie (or television episode) and its story and screenplay in full, scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end, gleaning useful and practical screenwriting tips along the way. NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie (1976) ScripTipps: The Descendants ScripTipps: The Fault in Our Stars ScripTipps: The Hangover ScripTipps: Sleepy Hollow ScripTipps: Star Trek (2009) ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II ScripTipps: Waitress COMING SOON: ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community

Based on a young adult novel with a fan base comparable to Beatlemania, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS wildly outperformed its own studio's box office estimates with a $48 million opening weekend, going on to become the highest grossing teen romance outside the TWILIGHT franchise and one of the most profitable movies of 2014. Its success has boosted demand in Hollywood for young adult fare that favors real life issues over vampires and dystopian governments. ScripTipps analyzes the successful tearjerker's screenplay adaptation by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber ((500) DAYS OF SUMMER) scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end. Learn how to approach sensitive subject matter such as cancer and the Holocaust without mawkishness but without offense, balance a plot-driven B story adventure within an internalized, character-driven A story, express theme visually, use multiple styles of voiceover effectively, and a whole lot more by studying this modern day LOVE STORY meets THE WIZARD OF OZ. Discover screenwriting secrets by deconstructing the movies you love. ScripTipps are tools to improve your screenwriting, not rules you must slavishly follow. Each ScripTipps ebook analyzes one movie and its story and screenplay in depth to uncover hundreds of useful and practical tips that can be applied to any screenplay, including yours! NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Arrested Development ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie (1976) ScripTipps: The Descendants ScripTipps: The Hangover ScripTipps: Sleepy Hollow ScripTipps: Star Trek (2009) ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II ScripTipps: Waitress COMING SOON: ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community

Learn screenwriting by deconstructing the movies you love! It’s fun and, with ScripTipps screenplay study guides, it’s easy! ScripTipps help aspiring screenwriters learn the craft of screenwriting through in-depth analyses of select screenplays that exhibit excellence in story structure, character development, and scene construction. Each ScripTipps ebook analyzes one movie and its story and screenplay in full, scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end, gleaning useful and practical screenwriting tips along the way. In 2007, before Seth Rogen KNOCKED UP Katherine Heigl and high-schooler JUNO earmarked her unwanted baby for adoption, another unplanned pregnancy movie had sparked a bidding war at Sundance. Written and directed by indie actress Adrienne Shelly, the endearing comedy about an unhappily-wed pie wizard is currently on its way to becoming a Broadway musical. ScripTipps serves an extra helping of WAITRESS as it examines the delicious screenplay to uncover its creamy screenwriting recipe secrets. NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Arrested Development ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie (1976) ScripTipps: The Descendants ScripTipps: The Fault in Our Stars ScripTipps: The Hangover ScripTipps: Sleepy Hollow ScripTipps: Star Trek (2009) ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II COMING SOON: ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community

Learn screenwriting by reexamining the movies you love! It’s fun and, with ScripTipps screenplay study guides, it’s easy! Writer/director Alexander Payne (Sideways) and writers Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The Way, Way Back) won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2012 for THE DESCENDANTS. ScripTipps examines the choices they made in adapting the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, as well as the universally-applicable screenwriting techniques they used to take their suffering protagonist on an emotional journey of discovery, closure, and healing. ABOUT THE SERIES: ScripTipps help aspiring screenwriters learn the craft of screenwriting through in-depth analyses of select screenplays that exhibit excellence in story structure, character development, and scene construction. Each ScripTipps screenplay study guide analyzes one movie and its story and screenplay in full, scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end, gleaning useful and practical screenwriting tips along the way. NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie ScripTipps: The Hangover ScripTipps: Star Trek ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II ScripTipps: Waitress COMING SOON: ScripTipps: Arrested Development ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community ScripTipps: The Fault in Our Stars ScripTipps: Sleepy Hollow

ScripTipps are intended to aid aspiring screenwriters in learning the craft of screenwriting through in-depth analyses of select screenplays that exhibit excellence in story structure, character development, and scene construction. Each ScripTipps screenplay study guide analyzes one movie and its story and screenplay in full, scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end, gleaning useful and practical screenwriting tips along the way. THE HANGOVER began as a spec script by established screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and became the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time. ScripTipps examines the techniques and tricks the screenplay used to create a $467-million international hit that launched a franchise and made overnight stars of its relatively unknown cast. This ScripTipps screenplay deconstruction mines THE HANGOVER for invaluable screenwriting tips on the use of in media res, character development, misdirection, conflict, subtext, comic set pieces, humor in exposition, and much, much more. NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie ScripTipps: The Descendants ScripTipps: Star Trek ScripTipps: Superman & Superman 2 ScripTipps: Waitress Coming Soon: ScripTipps: Arrested Development ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community ScripTipps: The Fault in Our Stars ScripTipps: Sleepy Hollow

There's never been a more exciting time to write for television. With the feature spec market a thing of the past, more new screenwriters are aiming for the small screen. If you're trying to break into TV writing, you'll need two types of writing samples: A spec episode of an existing series and an original pilot. Whether you're looking for a recent smash hit to spec or trying your hand at an original one-hour, SLEEPY HOLLOW is the perfect show to study. Conceived by Phillip Iscove, a writer with no prior produced credits, the series is a mash-up of two Washington Irving stories: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." What if Ichabod Crane slept for two centuries and woke up in 2013? Further developed by STAR TREK scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the show is a genre hybrid: a heavily serialized fantasy/horror mythology grafted onto a dual-protagonist, case-of-the-week police procedural. ScripTipps deconstructs the pilot episode of this smash hit series, analyzing its structural irregularities, how it introduces its important characters and themes, how it establishes a unique tone for the entire series, and more. ABOUT SCRIPTIPPS: ScripTipps help aspiring screenwriters learn the craft of screenwriting through in-depth analyses of select screenplays that exhibit excellence in story structure, character development, and scene construction. Each ScripTipps ebook analyzes one movie (or television episode) and its story and screenplay in full, scene by scene, from beginning to middle to end, gleaning useful and practical screenwriting tips along the way. NOTE: This ebook does NOT include the actual screenplay being discussed. ALSO AVAILABLE: ScripTipps: Arrested Development ScripTipps: Bridesmaids ScripTipps: Carrie (1976) ScripTipps: The Descendants ScripTipps: The Fault in Our Stars ScripTipps: The Hangover ScripTipps: Star Trek (2009) ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II ScripTipps: Waitress COMING SOON: ScripTipps: Breaking Bad ScripTipps: Community

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"There are immeasurably powerful dramatic principles that have governed storytelling for millennia, yet the powerful dimension they can bring to the inner life of characters has been forgotten. This inspiring and practical book delves into the fascinating world of archetypes, mythology, and the chakra system to reveal the deepest sources of character motivation and action for a single purpose: to enhance your storytelling abilities." "Filled with examples and exercises, Inner Drives may be used to structure character arcs, devise backstories, boost conflict, pair up couples, and form ensembles - resulting in strong, believable characters to drive your story." "Pamela Jaye Smith's information will help writers, directors, designers, development executives, and actors build on their existing skills to gain a creative advantage in attracting audiences to their work."--BOOK JACKET.

A paradigm shift in understanding the mechanics and art of comedy, providing practical tools that help writers translate that understanding into successful, commercial scripts. Kaplan deconstructs secrets and techniques in popular films and TV that work and don't work, and explains what tools were used (or should have been used ).

Let’s cut to the chase:Writing a Great Movieis a practical nuts-and-bolts manual to dramatic writing for film. This hands-on course in screenwriting shows how to create, develop, and construct an original screenplay from scratch using seven essential tools for the screenwriter—(1) Dilemma, Crisis, Decision and Action, and Resolution; (2) Theme; (3) the 36 Dramatic Situations; (4) the Enneagram; (5) Research and Brainstorming; (6) the Central Proposition; and (7) Sequence, Proposition, and Plot—which break the writing process down into approachable steps and produce great results. Author Jeff Kitchen—a working screenwriter, renowned dramaturge, and teacher at the University of Southern California’s graduate film school—shares the insider secrets he has developed over years of writing and teaching.Writing a Great Movieis the complete guide to creating compelling screenplays that will sell. • State-of-the-art screenwriting theory and technique from a master • Author named one of today's top screenwriting teachers inCreative Screenwritingmagazine • Great for writers at every level, beginner to established