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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Why Shorts? Why Features?
- 2 Story and You
- 3 Loglines
- 4 Basic Story Structure
- 5 Character
- 6 Getting the Audience to Care
- 7 Character-Based Structure
- 8 Outline
- 9 Screenplay Format
- 10 Scenes
- 11 Start Fast
- 12 The Role of Dialogue
- 13 Dialogue Techniques
- 14 Scene Descriptions
- 15 Suspense
- 16 Set Pieces
- 17 The Non-Traditional Film
- 18 Film School Applications and Breaking In
- Appendix: Course Outlines for Teachers or Self-Paced Learners