Writing plays and screenplays in the Chekhovian mode (契诃夫戏剧法) — distilled from the complete plays (没有父亲的人/普拉东诺夫, 伊凡诺夫, 林妖→万尼亚舅舅, 海鸥, 三姊妹, 樱桃园, nine one-acts) plus Chekhov's own letters, Stanislavsky's and Nemirovich-Danchenko's rehearsal notes and 焦菊隐/童道明…
Writing screenplays in the style of Ozu Yasujiro and Noda Kogo (小津安二郎・野田高梧) — distilled from six complete screenplays (晚春 Late Spring, 麦秋 Early Summer, 东京物语 Tokyo Story, 浮草 Floating Weeds, 秋日和 Late Autumn, 秋刀鱼之味 An Autumn Afternoon). Covers the "family member…
Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, standard flow, four oppositions), screwball comedy (social identity, strong heroine, father figure, motive shifts, buddy vs adversary two-hander,…
Character creation, protagonist/antagonist design and dramatic conflict for scripts (人物/对手/冲突) — merged from Lajos Egri (three-dimensional character, orchestration, unity of opposites, pivotal character, rising vs static vs jumping conflict, transition),…
Dialogue writing and revision for screen and stage (对白/台词/潜台词/唱词) — merged from Robert McKee's Dialogue (dialogue as action, said/unsaid/unsayable, exposition as ammunition, beat = action/reaction gerunds, flaws of credibility/language/content/design,…
Screenplay format, page craft, the writing process and adaptation (剧本格式/写作流程/改编) — merged from Wendy Henson's Screenwriting Step by Step (spec format rules, action paragraphs, transitions, story-doing, dramatic premise, subplots), Richard Walter (format, page…
The screenwriting business and career (编剧行业与生意经) — merged from Diamond & Weissman's Bulletproof (buyer's-eye workflow, three Cs, one-page nine-step, set pieces, submission, notes, resilience), Eric Bork's The Idea (PROBLEM seven-element idea test, 60/30/10,…
Japanese (and East-Asian/European non-Hollywood) screenwriting methods (日本编剧方法/原创剧本实战) — distilled from ten Japanese directors and writers in ゼロからの脚本術 (Kosawa Ryota's three-act = 起承转合 and speed by jumping, Uchida Kenji's beautiful structure and time-axis…