Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect

5th Edition

By: Claudia Hunter Johnson

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Paperback | 26 March 2020 | Edition Number 5

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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 20^th 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.

Industry Reviews

"Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Fifth Edition is an incredible, insightful guide to writing an effective, engaging short screenplay. Claudia Johnson takes the reader through the journey of crafting screenplays using connection as the path."
Dr. Valliere Richard Auzenne, Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts

Praise for the previous edition:

"Claudia Johnson leads the reader through the process of writing the short film, along the way illuminating something much bigger-how to write great drama in any form."

Linda Seger, Author, Making a Good Script Great

"Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Fifth Edition, is an incredible, insightful guide to writing an effective, engaging short screenplay. Claudia Hunter Johnson takes the reader through the journey of crafting screenplays using connection as the path."
Dr. Valliere Richard Auzenne, Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts

Praise for the previous edition:

"Claudia Hunter Johnson leads the reader through the process of writing the short film, along the way illuminating something much bigger-how to write great drama in any form."

Linda Seger, Author, Making a Good Script Great

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