Overview

While there are many guides to screenwriting, none of them tackle the specific difficulties of writing the tricky mid-section of the screenplay. The Heart of Your Script reveals the six key elements that are crucial for ensuring an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging center to any script. Using a broad range of concise case studies, including contemporary films such as Aftersun (2022), The Whale (2022), Shoplifters (2018), Talk to Me (2022), Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023), canonical texts such as Back to the Future (1985), Seven Samurai (1954) and There Will Be Blood (2007) and cult classics like Swiss Army Man, (2016), Jennifer’s Body (2009) and Heathers (1988), Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes provide helpful tips and tricks to assist writers in finding out what is at the heart of the story they want to tell and how to ensure that it is coming through in their stories. Refusing any single method for structuring this central portion, Wilkes and Hughes offer a character-centred study, which allows aspiring screenwriters to map their dramatic journey from the inside out.

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9781839028113

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The second act is where so many screenwriters come unstuck, thank goodness they now have Hughes and Wilkes to guide them through. And wow, this book is thorough! Whatever your story type, they’ve got you covered. -- Justine Hart, The Script Factory, UK

Author Information

Ted Wilkes is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at University for the Creative Arts, UK. Phil Hughes is Senior Lecturer and course leader in Film & Screen at Regent's University London, UK.

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