Screenwriting books are designed to help writers craft their stories within a structure that will connect with a reader. But what are the dangers of living and dying by the three-act structure? When does the scientific approach to screenwriting go too far? Screenwriter and director Felipe Braga (Trash, B1) answered these questions and more in an enlightening seminar at SXSW this week.
"I am not trying to bash screenwriting manuals," Braga said. "They provide outstanding analysis on how to write scripts. Script doctors are very intelligent people too, but what unites them is the promise that they will give us access not to formulas, but forms. And not access to rules, but principles. We have to see how the industry reacts to that."
According to Braga, these are the four most important screenwriting books:
from No Film School http://ift.tt/1pJtAuX
No comments:
Post a Comment