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Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience
Through a “Crazy” approach in writing the feature screenplay, the first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid script. In the second half, the book covers professional business side of the ever-changing industry by taking the reader through the work flow of Hollywood and explores how to work creatively with international countries like China in producing movies that resonate with a global audience.
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Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience
Through a “Crazy” approach in writing the feature screenplay, the first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid script. In the second half, the book covers professional business side of the ever-changing industry by taking the reader through the work flow of Hollywood and explores how to work creatively with international countries like China in producing movies that resonate with a global audience.
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Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience

Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience

by Weiko Lin
Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience

Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture A Global Audience

by Weiko Lin

Overview

Through a “Crazy” approach in writing the feature screenplay, the first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid script. In the second half, the book covers professional business side of the ever-changing industry by taking the reader through the work flow of Hollywood and explores how to work creatively with international countries like China in producing movies that resonate with a global audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781615933013
Publisher: Wiese, Michael Productions
Publication date: 07/01/2019
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Native fluent in Mandarin, Weiko is currently developing a Disney Plus Asia Pacific original series and a feature World War II biopic with Mad Chance (AMERICAN SNIPER) attached to produce.

Previously, Weiko adapted New York Times best-selling memoir RIVER TOWN by MacArthur Fellow Peter Hessler for Fugitive Films and director Lu Chuan (Disney's BORN IN CHINA) and a series pilot based on a Penguin YA novel for Super Deluxe. He has written projects for The Mark Gordon Company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Ivanhoe Pictures/SK Global, Don Mischer Productions, and Wanda Pictures. Credits as original story writer and producer include Chinese romance film 100 DAYS 真愛100天 that world premiered at Hawaii International Film Festival and was an official selection at the 23rd Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Mainland China. 

An AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship Finalist, Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award recipient, and Austin Film Festival Playwriting Award Finalist, he earned his M.F.A. in Screenwriting and B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from UCLA. A Fulbright Senior Specialist and Sundance Collab Advisor, Weiko has taught screenwriting at Northwestern University, Emerson College, UCLA Professional Program, and Taipei National University of the Arts. Currently, he is a tenured Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University.

Weiko's book CRAZY SCREENWRITING SECRETS: HOW TO CAPTURE A GLOBAL AUDIENCE is available wherever books are sold and its traditional Chinese edition was published in February 2022 in Greater China with the simplified edition scheduled for 2023 release. 

A current-active member of Writers Guild of America West and Dramatist Guild, he is represented by Anonymous Content and United Talent Agency.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Dedication....................................................................................... vii Acknowledgments............................................................................ viii Introduction...................................................................................... xi Part One GET CRAZY: Writing Tools Chapter 1: FUNNY FARM | Plowing Story Seeds............................... 3 Chapter 2: SIGNATURE DISHES | Genres.................................... 11 Chapter 3: FIRING UP THE STORY | Protagonist and Antagonist... 21 Chapter 4: THREE-COURSE MEAL | Movie Structure................. 33 Chapter 5: RECIPES | The Step Outline......................................... 40 Part Two KITCHEN IN THE MADHOUSE: Screenplay Construction Chapter 6: APPETIZER | Act One—Whet the Palate....................... 49 Chapter 7: MAIN COURSE | Act Two—Savory Climax.................... 55 Chapter 8: DESSERT | Act Three—Satisfaction................................ 59 Chapter 9: PRESENTATION | Organic Action and Dialogue........... 65 Chapter 10: EMOTIONS | Moving Stories Before Moving Scenes....... 72 Chapter 11: THERAPY | Digesting Notes and Rewriting................... 75 Chapter 12: PROCESS | Always Be Writing..................................... 82 Part Three LEAVING THE ASYLUM: The Writing Profession Chapter 13: WORKFLOW | From Screenplay to Theaters................... 89 Chapter 14: THE TEAM | Hollywood Managers and Agents.............. 95 Chapter 15: BREAKING IN | Film Schools and Competitions.......... 102 Chapter 16: COLLABORATION | Working as Partners................. 111 Chapter 17: PROTECTION | Registration and Copyright............... 114 Chapter 18: RIGHTS OF ARTISTS | Writers Guild of America........ 116 Part Four WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD: Universal Movies Chapter 19: GLOBAL FRANCHISE | Connection and Consistency. 121 Chapter 20: EXTRACTING CULTURE | Inclusion of Perspectives . 123 Chapter 21: AWAKENING | Crazy Rich Asians—The New Wave.... 127 Chapter 22: CHINESE FLAVOR | Adapting 5,000 Years of Culture for Global Audiences 131 Chapter 23: LOST IN TRANSLATION | Creating Stories for Mainland China...................................................................... 141 Chapter 24: FUSION | China Coproductions................................. 151 Chapter 25: HAVE YOU EATEN? | Chinese Cultural and Social Etiquettes 156 Part Five THE CRAZY SECRET Chapter 26: TO LIVE: Falling Into Place...................................... 165 Glossary.......................................................................................... 167 About the Author............................................................................ 169
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