Book to Screen by Catalano, Frank -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Book 1: Writing Great Charatcters in the First Ten Pages

1. Page to Screen 2. What an Audience Expects of You 3. Your Pitch 4. Getting Your Adapted Screenplay Read 5. Always Put Yourself in the Audience 6. Adaptation – Your First Ten Script Pages 7. Wrapping It Up

Book 2: Writing On Your Feet

Improvisational Techniques for Writers – Part 1 8. Writing on Your Feet 9. Writing Using Moving Pictures 10. Writing Using Your Five Senses 11. Manipulation versus Selection 12. Writing Using Improvisation 13. You Don’t Have To Be Funny to Improvise 14. Finding the Metaphor – How Not to be Literal

Book 3: Start Your Story at the End

15. What I Learned Working at a Motion Picture Studio 16. Adapting your Novel into a Screenplay 17. Write Like You’re Buying Toothpaste 18. Presenting Your Story to an Audience 19. Everyone is concerned with the end result not the process 20. Visualize Your Book as a Movie Trailer 21. Rosebud 22. Write Like a Painter 23. Who is Your Target Audience? 24. Start Your Story at the End

Book 4: The First Ten Pages

25. Location Location Location 26. Creating Inevitability in the First Ten Pages 27. Let’s Go to the Movies 28. Instant Gratification 29. Write Like You’re a Pole Dancer in a Strip Club 30. The Road Not Taken 31. Your First Ten Pages Description, Action and Dialogue 32. A Rose By Any Other Name Having the Right Title 33. Begin at the End

Book 5: Book to Screen

34. Rejection 35. Know Where You Are Going – Identify your Market 36. Working Your Way to Yes

Book 6: Acting it out

Book 7: Writing Great Dialogue

46. Writing Great Dialogue 47. Production Distribution Exhibition 48. Description Action Dialogue 49. What Does Dialogue Do? 50. Other Qualities of Dialogue