Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete Guide to Turning by Michael Hauge

By Michael Hauge

For greater than two decades, Writing Screenplays That promote has been hailed because the such a lot whole advisor on hand at the paintings, craft, and company of writing for video clips and tv. Now totally revised and up-to-date to mirror the most recent developments and scripts, Hollywood tale specialist and script advisor Michael Hauge walks readers via each step of writing and promoting profitable screenplays. in case you learn just one booklet at the screenwriter's craft, this has to be the single.

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ESSAY QUESTIONS: TRIGGER WORDS 25 Exercise 4 Here are some more examples of triggers that may seem vague when used as single words out of context, but become much more direct in context. For each example, say how the words that surround the trigger help to direct the writer towards the task. Where there is more than one trigger used in a question, say how the triggers differ in what they are asking for, and how each trigger develops from the one before. In the original context, some questions had data attached to them.

Information about the allocation of marks can help you to gauge how much time and effort to put into various parts of a question. It can also help you to understand to what extent you are free to repeat or overlap your ideas in any answer. Exam papers vary in where they put their information about marking, but you will find some details if you look for them. The details are likely to be in one of three places: 1. On the front of the paper, or at the beginning of a new section of the paper. This option tends to be chosen when all the questions to follow carry equal marks.

After all, why reinvent the wheel? Here is an example of a setter trying to build a developmental structure for the candidate’s answer: Read the following extract from The Merchant’s Tale then answer all the questions. (Extract printed in the exam paper) 1. What do January’s words reveal of his attitude to May and to marriage? 2. Comment on Chaucer’s use of description and imagery in the passage. 3. How does Chaucer contrast youth and age in the tale as whole? You don’t need to know the tale or the extract concerned to see that the parts of the question above build from a smaller, easier focus towards a larger, more difficult one.

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