A Sense of Dread (eBook)

Getting Under the Skin of Horror Screenwriting

Neal Marshall Stevens (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Michael Wiese Productions (Verlag)
978-1-61593-344-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A Sense of Dread features three main sections. 1) A detailed examination of the biological, psychological, and cultural bases of fear. What fears do we share with animals? What fears are uniquely human? What fears have we learned from our culture? From our families? From our experiences growing up? And what, exactly, is the difference between fear and dread? 2) A Sense of Dread then combines these ideas to explore the roots of human fear and apply them to storytelling for the screen. The Toolbox of Dread outlines the techniques for creating terror on the page. A wide array of horror subgenres are also explored, including why they exist, and what challenges each presents to the horror screenwriter. 3) Author Neal Marshall Stevens puts Theory into Practice, using examples from his own work to demonstrate how to apply his toolbox and the principles of Dread to put real scares into the pages of a screenplay. Finally, we seek to answer the question many people ask: What are you afraid of?

Inhalt

CHAPTER ONE: FEAR ITSELF (PART ONE); THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF FEAR
Fear of the Unknown Is Universal
Being Curiously Afraid
Startle Reflex
Fear and the Mapping of the Brain
CHAPTER TWO: FEAR ITSELF (PART TWO); PSYCHOLOGY
Instinctive Fears
Nightmares
Night Terrors
Common Phobias
CHAPTER THREE: FEAR ITSELF (PART THREE); CULTURE
Paranoid Fears
Violations of Cultural Taboos
Urban Legends
CHAPTER FOUR: THE TOOLBOX OF DREAD
What’s Scary on the Page?
Building Tension
Misdirection and Reversal—The Twist
Jump Scares
Explicit vs. Non-Explicit Horror
Isolation / Dislocation
CHAPTER FIVE: PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE
Using a treatment and scenes from an unproduced project, we will apply what we’ve learned to take a blank page and generate a “Sense of Dread”
CONCLUSION: WHY HORROR?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Cinema • David Lynch • Horror • Psychology • Stephen King
• ISBN-10: 1-61593-344-1 / 1615933441
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61593-344-0 / 9781615933440