The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience emotional involvement from page one through page 120. This seminar explores an often-overlooked tool that can help: a screenplay can be built of sequences of about fifteen pages each. By focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each sequence, a writer can more easily conquer the script as a whole. DVD includes:

Historical background of sequences.
Introduction of the Four Big Tools that storytellers use to maintain audience attention.
Graphics demonstrating the “nested structure” of successful screenplays.
A sequence analysis of two recent, successful motion pictures.
 
Part of the Screenwriting Expo DVD Series, this 2-hour masters course is an exceptional value. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the finest faculty teaching screenwriting today.

Paul Joseph Gulino taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California for five years, and since 1998 has served as head of the screenwriting program at Chapman University in Orange, California. His credits include two produced screenplays in addition to numerous commissioned scripts and script consultations, and his plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His book, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach was published last year and has already been adopted as a textbook at several leading film schools nationwide. He studied screenwriting with Milos Forman, Samson Raphaelson, and Frank Daniel at Columbia University. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 3.