The secret of the film's audience success lies in three words: contradiction, shifter, paradox. "Put a paradox at the heart of the plot. Let the contradiction become an integral feature of the character's character. A shifter is one of the ways to artistically solve a scene…" says screenwriter and teacher of drama theory Oleg Sirotkin. In his book, he provides illustrative examples of how these techniques are implemented in cinema, and helps the authors in the work on the script - from the idea to the first draft. Through the analysis of the cult film "The Matrix", Oleg Sirotkin gives a clear and simple scheme of the film's scenario structure. He also talks about the specifics of the work of domestic screenwriters and analyzes the features of scripts for films of various genres and formats: from feature films to ultra-short web series.
