Screenwriting Unchained: Reclaim Your Creative Freedom and Master Story Structure

InScreenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg sets out a dogma-busting, innovative method for developing screenplaysThis practical, no-nonsense guide leaves behind one-size-fits-all story theories and offers arefreshingly modern approach to story structure, making it a precious resource for anyone involved creatively in the Film and TV industry (or aspiring to be): writers, directors, producers, development execs, showrunners and, more generally, storytellers eager to reach a wide audience at home and abroad without losing their creative freedom.Oberg identifies three main story-types – plot-led, character-led, theme-led – then reveals in a clear, conversational style how each of these impacts on the structure of any story andhow we can use a single set of tools to develop any screenplay, from an independent crossover to a studio blockbuster. Crucially, he also looks at hybrids and exceptions, those unique gems that don't fit any of the story-types but still work beautifully.This leads to theStory-Type Method, a powerful yet flexible way to handle the script development process. Oberg's insipiring framework doesn’t tell filmmakerswhatto write andwhen, but focuses instead onwhysome storytelling tools have stood the test of time, andhowto use them in the 21st century.Here are some of the easy-to-understand concepts explored inScreenwriting Unchainedthat will help you improveanyscreenplay:How to identify the story-type of your project to make its development faster and easier and to solve most story structure problems.How to leave behind the prescriptive,logisticalthree-act structure based on page numbers or minutes and replace it with a flexible,dramaticthree-act structure that will help you design a rock-solid screenplay.How focusing on emotion, character development and managing information will allow you to go beyond the “protagonist–goal–obstacles–conflict” basic chain of drama.How to use the fractal aspect of structure to design not only the whole story but also its parts in order to avoid the dreaded "sagging mid