Introduction
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. Establishing Practice
2. Subject: Ideas into Character
3. Structure and Narrative
4. Visual Storytelling
5. Dialogue and Voice
6. The Cultures of Screenwriting
7. Key Points and Foundations Exercises
PART II: SPECULATIONS
8. Exploring Possibilities
9. Subjects: Ideas into Characters
10. Structures and Narratives
11. Visual Storytelling
12. Dialogues and Voices
13. Further Cultures of Screenwriting
14. Key Points and Speculations Exercises.
Professor Craig Batty is Head of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is an award-winning educator and researcher, with interests in screenwriting craft, theory and teaching, creative practice research methodologies, and supervising creative doctorates. He is also a writer, script editor and script consultant.
Zara Waldeback is a script consultant and creative specialist currently living in Sweden and working across Europe. In the UK, she was for many years Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting and Directing at Thames Valley University, as well as working in development for British Screen and the First Film Foundation. She now teaches key narrative skills to a range of creative artists, and works as script editor for feature films, including the award-winning Sami Blood.