Capturing Big Ideas for Less in Feature Film: How a Limited Environment Can Serve Substantial Themes

This book is an accessible guide, directed towards filmmakers with restricted resources and shortened schedules, who want to ensure their creation of riveting, fresh, and exciting projects. Whether a film is produced under a low or high budget, this text emphasizes that a small world coupled with a big idea can serve strong themes, complex characters, and powerful stories.

Award-winning screenwriter David Carren suffuses this book with his own, original Narrative Synonym Process, teaching re...