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Free Case Study of Groundhog Day

February 2, 2017. It’s Groundhog Day! To celebrate one of my favorite movies, I’ve decided to offer a free case study of the film, as analysed in Screenwriting Unchained, my book on story structure and screenplay development. Although this analysis of Groundhog Day isn’t as detailed as the other case studies in the book, I use it throughout the Developing […]

Mastering Story Structure

By Emmanuel Oberg

October 18, 2016. The recording of a live teleconference I’ve done last month with Max Timm from the ISA (International Screenwriters Association) in the U.S. has just been posted on their website. We’re discussing story structure, the Story-Type Method® and Screenwriting Unchained. I’m rambling a bit as I’m not used to discuss this without the […]

"Screenwriters tend to rely too heavily on formula, as if there is a plug-and-play recipe for creating art. What Oberg does with this Screenwriting Unchained book is offer a background on what he calls “logistical structure” and why it has worked for so long, but then focuses the writer on “dramatic structure” which instead allows the writer to breathe, present emotion on the page in a more fluid manner, and concentrate on the most important element of storytelling; presenting an ...

Max Timm, Int’l Screenwriters Assoc (ISA) and author of YA fantasy novel The WishKeeper

https://www.screenplayunlimited.com/screenwriting-unchained/

25/09/2016

Screenwriter and script consultant

With more than twenty years of experience in the Film and TV industry

After selling a first project to Warner Bros as a co-writer, he went on to be commissioned by StudioCanal and Gold Circle before writing solo for Working Title / Universal and Film4.

Emmanuel lives in the UK. His agent is Rachel Holroyd at Casarotto in London.

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