Screenwriting guru
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A screenwriting guru is a known, experienced and usually highly paid screenwriter
, screenwriting teacher or book author who has written about the craft of screenwriting
, and who is also well known and accepted as a professional throughout the film
industry. The term "guru" is attached to their name because of their extensive knowledge of the form and structure of conventional screenplays, as well as to their ability to successfully teach this knowledge to novice "would-be" writers. Among the most well known are:
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, screenwriting teacher or book author who has written about the craft of screenwriting
Screenwriting
Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....
, and who is also well known and accepted as a professional throughout the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
industry. The term "guru" is attached to their name because of their extensive knowledge of the form and structure of conventional screenplays, as well as to their ability to successfully teach this knowledge to novice "would-be" writers. Among the most well known are:
- Syd FieldSyd FieldSyd Field is an American writer who has become one of the most popular screenwriting gurus in the movie industry. Field has written several books on the subject of screenwriting, and holds workshops and seminars around the world that help aspiring and professional screenwriters produce the kind of...
-- The Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Handbook, Four Screenplays - Robert McKeeRobert McKeeRobert McKee, born 1941, is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible" called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the...
-- STORY (book and seminar) - Christopher VoglerChristopher VoglerChristopher Vogler is a Hollywood development executive best known for his guide for screenwriters, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers.-Career:...
-- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For WritersThe Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For WritersThe Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers is a popular screenwriting textbook by writer Christopher Vogler, focusing on the theory that most stories can be boiled down to a series of narrative structures and character archetypes, described through mythological allegory.Vogler based this... - William GoldmanWilliam GoldmanWilliam Goldman is an American novelist, playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.-Early life and education:...
-- Adventures in the Screen TradeAdventures in the Screen TradeAdventures in the Screen Trade is a book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a parody of Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade.-Overview:The book is divided into three parts....
, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade - David Trottier -- The Screenwriter's Bible
- Linda SegerLinda SegerLinda Seger is a screenwriting coach and script consultant best known for her method of analyzing movie scripts, which she originally developed as her college dissertation project. She has consulted on over 2000 screenplays with the likes of Ron Howard, Ray Bradbury and Jennifer Hilldebrand...
-- Making a Good Script Great - Michael HaugeMichael HaugeMichael Hauge is a story and script consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects...
-- Writing Screenplays That Sell - John TrubyJohn TrubyJohn Truby is a screenwriter, director and screenwriting teacher. His first feature film as writer/director was All-American Boy. He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster .Truby argues...
-- The Anatomy of Story, Great Screenwriting (DVD Video / MP3 Audio Seminar Course), Blockbuster (Story Software) - Jeff BollowJeff BollowJeff Bollow is an actor, writer, director, producer, author, public speaker, and film festival organizer...
-- FAST Screenplay (online system) - Yves LavandierYves Lavandier-Biography:Yves Lavandier was born on April 2, 1959. After taking a degree in civil engineering, he studied film at Columbia University, New York, between 1983 and 1985. Miloš Forman, František Daniel, Stefan Sharf, Brad Dourif, Larry Engel, and Melina Jelinek were among his teachers. During these...
-- Writing DramaWriting DramaWriting Drama is a treatise by French writer and filmmaker Yves Lavandier, originally published in 1994, revised in 1997, 2004 and 2008. The English version was translated from the French by Bernard Besserglik and published in 2005. The book exists also in Italian and Spanish.-Content:Writing... - Jeffrey Alan SchechterJeffrey Alan SchechterJeffrey Alan Schechter is a screenwriter whose work has been nominated for two Emmy awards, a Writers Guild of America award, and a Writers Guild of Canada award.- Overview :...
-- TotallyWrite (software and seminars) - Marilyn HorowitzMarilyn HorowitzMarilyn Horowitz is an award-winning NYU professor, script doctor, writing coach, producer and founder of The Horowitz Center for Screenwriting, an industry leader in transforming scripts into market-ready screenplays in record time. Horowitz is also the creator of The Horowitz System®, a writing...
-- "How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks" & "The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting" (books and seminars) - Blake SnyderBlake SnyderBlake Snyder was an American screenwriter based in Los Angeles, who became one of the most popular . The author of three books on screenwriting and story structure, Snyder led international seminars and workshops for writers in various disciplines, as well as consultation sessions for some of...
-- "Save the Cat" (book and seminars) - Billy Marshall StonekingBilly Marshall StonekingBilly Marshall Stoneking is an Australian-American poet, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. His son C.W. Stoneking is a musician.-Childhood and education:...
-- currently full-time lecturer in screenwriting, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, author of "On Becoming a Medium - The Storyteller, The Characters, the Audience and the Tribe". - William C. Martell -- "The Secrets of Action Screenwriting", (17 Blue-Books & Audio Cources)
- Lajos EgriLajos EgriLajos N. Egri was the author of The Art of Dramatic Writing, which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playwriting, though its teachings have since been adapted for the writing of short stories, novels, and screenplays.-Early years:Egri came to the US in 1906...
-- "The Art of Dramatic Writing" (The Father of Modern Screenwriting Gurus) - Joseph CampbellJoseph CampbellJoseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...
-- "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" (The Father of Modern Screenwriting Gurus) - AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
-- "Poetics" (The Great Grand-Daddy of Modern Screenwriting Gurus) - Konstantin StanislavskiKonstantin StanislavskiConstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski , was a Russian actor and theatre director. Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic and ensemble playing of the Meiningen company and the naturalistic staging of Antoine and the independent theatre movement, Stanislavski organized his realistic...
-- "An Actor Prepares", "Building A Character", "Creating A Role" (The Father of Actors, Stars, Screenwriters, Directors and Acting - Writing Gurus / Teachers)