Textbook

Short Screenplay : Your Short Film from Concept to Production by Dan Gurskis is available on reserve at the library and scans of the specified reading are at this link

Tools of Analysis

3 Act Structure Breakdown

Active Reading Guide for Screenplay  

Character worksheet

               WHAT IS STORY?

Core Events-Protagonist.The Tortoise and the Hare

Elements of Three Act Structure

Log Lines

Fiction Step Outline Pointers

Matt-Trey 6 Rules

Nonfiction.Documentary Modalities-Evidence

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Pixar Development Process

Plot vs Story

Setting the Scene

The Seven Basic Plots – Summary

Short Film Analysis Worksheet

Three Act Structure.Jim Soto glosses SYD_FIELD

Screenplays / Outlines / Demonstrations / Examples

Adam Davidson.The Lunch Date

A-V Scripting – Reenactment

Fiction Treatments  

Freaks&Geeks.Bible excerpt

The Luckiest Woman on Earth.Harpers

The Luckiest Woman on Earth.Word

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-1

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-1 with supporting text

Step-Outline:LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-2

Step Outline: LUCKIEST WOMAN ON EARTH – Version-2 with supporting text

Nonfiction Project.Treatment-AV examples

Sample Movie Treatment-Lilly

Sample Nonfiction Project

Screenplay.A PIECE OF APPLE PIE

SCREENPLAY FORMAT CHEAT SHEET

Screenplay format rules

Step Outline-SIT

Step Outline-KOM

Writer’s Store Screenplay Format Guide

Assignments

Writing Assignment #1 – 2020 Version 

Writing Assignment #2-2019 Version

       Writing Assignment #2-2020 Version

Writing Assignment #3-Fiction / Writing Assignment #3-Nonfiction

Writing Assignment #4: Loglines & Step Outlines

Writing Assignment #5-Fiction  / Writing  Assignment #5-Nonfiction

Writing Assignment #6.Loglines & Step Outlines  

Project Guidelines

Nonfiction Project Guidelines

                Fiction Project guidelines

Revision Project Guidelines

Film links   [BMCC Libraries Film Databases-link]

Bitch (2008, dir. Dom Bridges; scr. Ariel Gordon)

Charlotte et Veronique ou tous les garcons s’appellent Patrick (1959, dir. Jean-Luc Godard/scr. Eric Rohmer, 20 mins.)

The Godfather (1972, dir. Francis Ford Coppola; scr. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, from the novel by Mario Puzo)  (Swank Digital Campus — off campus link — need to be logged in to BMCC Library to access)

J’Attendrai le suivant (I’ll Wait for the Next One) (2002, dir. Philippe Orreindy/scr. Philippe Orreindy & Thomas Gaudin, 4 mins)

Kom (1995, dir./scr Marianne Ulrichsen, 4 mins.)  (or Here)

Lifted (2006, Gary Rydstrom, 5 mins.)

       Matt and Trey at NYU

The Lunch Date (1989, dir./scr. Adam Davidson, 11 mins.)   [Douglas Adams on Letterman/Stolen Cookies Story; start at 3:00]

Pig! (1996, dir./scr. Francine McDougall)

Sit (2016, Yoko Okumura, 12 mins.)

Surprise (1995, dir./scr. Veit Helmer, 6 mins.)

The Umbrella Man (2011, Errol Morris, 7 mins.)

Voyages d’affaires (The Business Trip) (2008. dir./scr. Sean Ellis)