Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Fifth Edition, stands alone
among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though
often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as
conflict. This ground-breaking book will show you how to advance and
deepen your screenwriting skills, increasing your ability to write
richer, more resonant short screenplays that will connect with your
audience.
Award-winning writer and director Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches you the
all-important basics of dramatic technique and guides you through the
challenging craft of writing short screenplays with carefully focused
exercises of increasing length and complexity. In completing these
exercises and applying Johnson's techniques and insights to your own
work, you will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter's
purpose, craft effective patterns of human change, and strengthen your
storytelling skills.
This 20th Anniversary Edition features 11 short screenplays,
including Academy Award winning Barry Jenkins' (Moonlight, If Beale
Street Could Talk) luminous short film, My Josephine, and an
accompanying companion website that features the completed films and
additional screenplay examples. The book has also been expanded and
updated to include two new award-winning screenplays Killer Kart and
The Great Wall of Vicky Lynn. and a brand-new chapter exploring the
use of genre in the short film. An absolute must-have resource for
students of screenwriting.
