Story Maps: 12 Great Screenplays - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Up, Rocky, Sex and the City, X-Men, Black Swan, Juno, The Matrix

Daniel Calvisi

Act Four Screenplays

2012

81 páginas

2h 42m

ISBN-13: 9780983626626

STORY MAPS: 12 Great Screenplays (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Up, Rocky, Sex and the City, X-Men, Black Swan, Juno, The Matrix) a.k.a. the "Booster Pack" is a companion book to Daniel Calvisi's best-seller "STORY MAPS: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay." This ebook breaks down 12 GREAT MOVIES, primarily from the past decade, into the detailed but easy-to-follow structural analysis known as the Story Map.

95% of great movies follow the story map, so it follows that every serious screenwriter should study beat sheets of successful screenplays from master screenwriters.

"Story Maps: 12 Great Screenplays" analyzes these twelve hit films:

Juno (Teen Comedy/Drama) 2007
The Social Network (Biopic) 2010
Hustle & Flow (Music Drama) 2007
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Action/Adventure) 1981
Black Swan (Thriller) 2010
Sex and the City (Romantic Comedy) 2008
Meet The Parents (Comedy) 2000
The Matrix (Sci-Fi Action) 1999
Rain Man (Drama) 1988
Rocky (Sports Drama) 1977
Up (Animated Comedy/Action) 2009
X-Men (Superhero “Origin” Action) 2000

These hit movies are great examples of professional screenwriting and rock-solid story structure in many different genres and budget levels aimed at varied audiences. The author, a professional Story Analyst with major movie studio experience, stands by each title as a strong example of its genre and as a primer to learn the screenwriting craft at the level that you need to be: the “submission ready” tier that makes a good script into a GREAT SCRIPT.

The purpose of learning to story map is simple: to help you improve your craft and increase your odds of getting your script to impress a decision-maker in Hollywood. That's it.