Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach
The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each of these sequences in detail, a writer can more easily conquer the challenges posed by the script as a whole.\ The...
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Produced screenwriter and playwright Gulino (screenwriting, Chapman U., California) helps screenwriters maintain viewer interest and keep the story moving through the entire script, by explaining the notion of sequences, that a feature film is composed of a series of shorter films. He demonstrates the various ways sequences can work by analyzing 11 popular films. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsAuthor's noteForeword1An introduction to sequences12Toy story : firing on all eight203The shop around the corner : fractured symmetry414Double indemnity : flashback to the future645Fellini's Nights of cabiria : nocturnal episodes806North by northwest : 1,700 miles in nine sequences977Lawrence of Arabia : sixteen sequences and an intermission1148The graduate : passive main character1459One flew over the cuckoo's nest : midpoint reversal15810Air force one : eight sequences eight miles up17211Being John Malkovich : the disappearing lead actor18212The fellowship of the ring : the shotgun approach199Sources225Index227
