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TC_Writer
Posted September 3, 2011
Martell is a seasoned screenwriter (mostly cable action/thrillers), and while his tricks for finding useful script ideas aren't exactly groundbreaking, they are interesting and (in many cases) amusing. This short work is packed with examples and exercises, and for a young screenwriter, Your Idea Machine couldn't help but jumpstart that idea file. One caveat; you'll find a fair number of typos and odd formatting issues running throughout the book; read it for the ideas and forget the messy stuff.
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Posted July 31, 2011
then read this book.
This is a fantastic and enlarged version of Bill Martell's famous Blue Book series.
This book helps you get generate and refine your screenplay idea. As ideas are the keystone of screenplays the better the idea the better and easier your screenplay will be.
Martell writes in short witty sentences which make it all the easier to digest the principles and techniques.
If you're serious about screen writing you can't afford to miss this book or this series. Keep an eye out for the rest of them!
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Overview
Your screenplay is going to begin with an idea. There are good ideas and bad ideas and commercial ideas and personal ideas. But where do you find ideas in the first place? This handbook explores different methods for finding or generating ideas, and combining those ideas into concepts that sell.The Idea Bank, Fifteen Places To Find Ideas, Good Ideas And Bad Ideas, Ideas From Locations And Elements, Keeping Track Of Your Ideas, Idea Theft - What Can You Do? Weird Ways To Connect Ideas, Combing Ideas To Create Concepts, High Concepts - What Are They? Creating The Killer Concept, Substitution - Lion Tamers & Hitmen, Creating Blockbuster Concepts, ...