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Film Courage: How is Story Maps [How to Write a GREAT Screenplay book] different from other methods out there, say like Save The Cat?
Daniel Calvisi, Script Doctor, Writing Coach and Author: Save The Cat I have a lot of problems with. I think it did a really good job at the time it came out of making beat sheets and dramatic elements in a screenplay more accessible to newer writers but I don’t agree with a lot of Blake Snyder’s categorizations. I think that his method (the original Blake Snyder beat sheet) was designed for his genre which is commercial family comedies or high concept comedies. He used Miss Congeniality as one of his pure examples in the book and it was a great example, it’s good screenwriting, it’s a high concept fun movie, but I don’t think his method applies to every genre. Whereas I think my Story Map is general enough that it can apply to any genre. In my books, I break down movies of all genres and then now with TV shows of all genres. With Save The Cat the beat sheet specifically there are beats in there that I just don’t think are beats. It opens with…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
DANIEL P. CALVISI is a Script Doctor, Writing Coach and the author of Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay and Story Maps: TV DRAMA: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot. He is a former Story Analyst for major studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax Films and New Line Cinema. He coaches writers, teaches webinars on writing for film and television and speaks at writing conferences. Many of his clients have worked with the top networks and studios in the industry, such as Netflix, HBO, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony, ABC, Showtime, Apple TV+ and more. He holds a degree in Film and Television from New York University. He lives in Los Angeles.
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