Screenplay Structure

8.  Screenwriter William Goldman, a two-time Academy Award winner, has long preached that “screenplays are structure.” What is he talking about? 
A) If he’s referring to a particular story-telling model, describe that in detail.
B) If there are multiple models, what are the most influential ones and how do they differ?
C) And how has [...]

Indiana Jones 4 opening scene – as it should have been

              Indiana Jones IV

 
FADE IN:
Int. desert cave—DAY
 
A figure resembling INDIANA JONES walks down a long hallway with two guides flanking him holding flashlights and looking nervous.  They have been walking for a while and the passage is becoming more dusty and full of cobwebs.
 
One of the guides ARI stops to take a rock out of [...]

Irish Famine story–2002

                                                The Blight                                          
 
Arriving in Liverpool in December of 1850, I realized that an objective account of a few Irish emigrants would be impossible, so affected was I by the suffering I saw there.  Nevertheless, a weepy emotional account of the situation there would be of no use to anyone due the already widespread accounts of [...]

Jim and Ed

                 
 

VIDEO

AUDIO

FADE UP TO MS: Jim, sitting in a car reading a magazine.

Stereo:  Bob Marley “Lion in Zion”
 

CUT TO LS: Ed, getting in the car
 

Ed: Hey whatsup man

CUT TO LS: Car drives off
CUT TO CU, POV backseat: Jim changes the song and yawns.
                                  

 
 
 
Ed: so you gonna finish that story man?
 

CU, POV backseat: Jim rubs [...]

Silent Hostility

I walked into the house and found an unusual and disquieting silence. There should have been any number of sounds in a house that was supposedly full of people. The courtyard was empty and so was the kitchen. I walked around the house before depositing my belonging in the room and the house was also [...]

Boozehound

I’m not a bum, or a hobo, or a drunk, or any of the archaic and condescending terms I am pointed out to be. Nor am I homeless; I live in Copley Square, and I am an educated man. Now, the word drunk could aptly be applied to me most of the time, but I [...]