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The Heart of Your Script
The Insider’s Guide to Writing the Difficult Middle Section of a Screenplay
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While there are many guides to screenwriting, none of them tackle the specific difficulties of writing the tricky mid-section of the screenplay. The Heart of Your Script reveals the six key elements that are crucial for ensuring an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging centre to any...
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An in-depth exploration of how to create an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging central section of a film.
An in-depth exploration of how to create an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging central section of a film.
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While there are many guides to screenwriting, none of them tackle the specific difficulties of writing the tricky mid-section of the screenplay. The Heart of Your Script reveals the six key elements that are crucial for ensuring an emotionally satisfying and dramatically engaging centre to any script.
Using a broad range of concise case studies, including contemporary films such as Aftersun (2022), The Whale (2022), Shoplifters (2018), Talk to Me (2022), Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023), canonical texts such as Back to the Future (1985), Seven Samurai (1954) and There Will Be Blood (2007) and cult classics like Swiss Army Man (2016), Jennifer’s Body (2009) and Heathers (1988), Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes provide helpful tips and tricks to assist writers in finding out what is at the heart of the story they want to tell and how to ensure that it is coming through in their stories.
Refusing any single method for structuring this central portion, Wilkes and Hughes offer a character-centred study, which allows aspiring screenwriters to map their dramatic journey from the inside out.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839028106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Illustration: 6 bw illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 460g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Ted Wilkes is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at University for the Creative Arts, UK.
Phil Hughes is Senior Lecturer and course leader in Film & Screen at Regent's University London, UK.
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