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Writing A Great Movie: Key Tools For Successful Screenwriting - Jeff Kitchen

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How Do I Make My Students Oriented to the Process of Writing a Thriller?

"I'm trying to make them as proactive and as involved in the process as possible," he says. "They end up hand copying all the sequence proposition plot we do as we construct it." They've hand copied that done a free check, but they're not tasked with learning the tools. Their main job is to observe everything to get oriented,. So they see the whole process. And then when I'm training them intensively in the 36 dramatic situations and they're like, “Why is he having us do this over and over again?” The experts toward the end of the 18 month program can jump right into their own stories without needing any help from me at all.

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