Writing & Selling Drama Screenplays
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More About This Title Writing & Selling Drama Screenplays
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It may be drama features that win the most awards and kudos from critics, but in the current marketplace you’re unlikely to sell a drama screenplay in the way you would a genre script.
Breaking down the nuts and bolts of what differentiates drama from genre, Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays will consider questions such as:
• What is ‘emotional truth’?
• What separates stereotypical and authentic characters?
• What are the different types of drama feature screenplay?
• How do we make these films, when there’s ‘no money’?
• What are the distribution opportunities for dramas?
Exploring the ways in which drama and authenticity work, it will empower screenwriters to make their own story and character choices, so they can write and also help to package, finance and even make their own drama features.
Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays includes detailed case studies of produced dramas made on both shoestring and bigger budgets, and industry insights from their writers, directors and producers. It looks in-depth at Scottish BAFTA-winning Night People, the iconic coming out movie Beautiful Thing, the touching New Orleans drama Hours, starring the late Paul Walker, and the ambitious true story of Saving Mr Banks, based on the battle of wills between Mary Poppins author PL Travers and Walt Disney himself. It will also discuss films such as Brokeback Mountain, American Beauty, The King's Speech, Juno, Erin Brockovich, Changeling and Girl, Interrupted.
Breaking down the nuts and bolts of what differentiates drama from genre, Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays will consider questions such as:
• What is ‘emotional truth’?
• What separates stereotypical and authentic characters?
• What are the different types of drama feature screenplay?
• How do we make these films, when there’s ‘no money’?
• What are the distribution opportunities for dramas?
Exploring the ways in which drama and authenticity work, it will empower screenwriters to make their own story and character choices, so they can write and also help to package, finance and even make their own drama features.
Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays includes detailed case studies of produced dramas made on both shoestring and bigger budgets, and industry insights from their writers, directors and producers. It looks in-depth at Scottish BAFTA-winning Night People, the iconic coming out movie Beautiful Thing, the touching New Orleans drama Hours, starring the late Paul Walker, and the ambitious true story of Saving Mr Banks, based on the battle of wills between Mary Poppins author PL Travers and Walt Disney himself. It will also discuss films such as Brokeback Mountain, American Beauty, The King's Speech, Juno, Erin Brockovich, Changeling and Girl, Interrupted.
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English
Lucy V. Hay is a novelist, script editor and script reader. She is one of the founding organisers of the London Screenwriters’ Festival and Associate Producer of the dark Brit Thriller Deviation (2012), starring king of the indies, Danny Dyer and Hellboy 2’s Anna Walton. Lucy has read for a variety of production companies, funding initiatives and screen agencies as well as individual directors and producers with her Bang2write script consultancy. She owns the scriptwriting craft tips and networking site at www.bang2write.com and the online writers’ group on Facebook and Twitter, ‘Bang2writers’.
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'A top-notch, cutting-edge guide to writing and selling, not just practical but inspirational. Lucy's distinctive voice infuses the entire journey. Quite brilliant. Here's the woman who'll help you make things happen.' - Barbara Machin, award-winning writer & creator of Waking the Dead
'Delivers the stirring call to arms that writers must not only write, but take their work to the next level themselves, making sacrifices and taking risks if they want to see their stories on screen.' - Chris Jones, Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Creative Director at the London Screenwriters Festival
'Delivers the stirring call to arms that writers must not only write, but take their work to the next level themselves, making sacrifices and taking risks if they want to see their stories on screen.' - Chris Jones, Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Creative Director at the London Screenwriters Festival
