<p>The art and science of crafting superior stories for feature film, television, and computer graphics productions, for both local and international purposes alike, are extremely important. In the artistic sense, this is a glimpse at the key elements in creating successful characters, stories, and environments. In the technical sense, it is a review on how to write a professional screenplay, as well as a comparison between different mediums, methods, and styles of writing. In order to conduct this research and accomplish said goals, material from a variable set of sources, including work by acclaimed authors, as well as professional screenplays and personal experience within the subject was used. The initial hypothesis that was put forth, proved in the end to become the overall result. Although being a field more inclined towards art than science, some of the answer and results came to fall within individual conclusions and opinions, rather than technical facts, as writing is different in style and nature to each and every screenwriter.</p>

The art and science of crafting superior stories for feature film, television, and computer graphics productions, for both local and international purposes alike, are extremely important. In the artistic sense, this is a glimpse at the key elements in creating successful characters, stories, and environments. In the technical sense, it is a review on how to write a professional screenplay, as well as a comparison between different mediums, methods, and styles of writing. In order to conduct this research and accomplish said goals, material from a variable set of sources, including work by acclaimed authors, as well as professional screenplays and personal experience within the subject was used. The initial hypothesis that was put forth, proved in the end to become the overall result. Although being a field more inclined towards art than science, some of the answer and results came to fall within individual conclusions and opinions, rather than technical facts, as writing is different in style and nature to each and every screenwriter.

“Paradisia” is a feature screenplay that is set in Iran during the opening days of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq. It follows the story of a young couple in a war-torn border town, who, accompanied reluctantly by a random stranger, set off to bury the girl’s deceased father before they leave the city. This document is a report on the process of the development of the script, from the conception of its original idea, to the formulation of its plot, characters and structure, based on my sources of research and inspiration. It offers a brief account of the events of the first days of war, and compares and contrasts it to what I have chosen to portray in the script. It also lays out the major plot and character flaws of the original draft of the story, as were pointed out by my supervisor and readers, and demonstrates how I have attempted to address each one of them in order to improve the composition of my characters, the organization of the plot, and the consistency of the story’s structure. / text

From the sprouting of the idea for the series to the final stages of post-production for Returning to Ananda, a one-hour, made for cable-television pilot, directed by Déjà Cresencia Bernhardt; this report details the pre-production to post-production phases of its development. Included in this report are the final screenplay and various other production notes. / text

The following report documents the inspiration, themes, preparation, and challenges faced in writing the feature length screenplay Horse Latitudes. This is the story of a young woman who works as a spam writer for an advertising agency. In hopes of moving up in the company, Cairo begins working undercover for her boss, writing erotica blog entries for his personal website. She begins using the people closest to her for material, thus betraying her own morals. As she descends deeper into debt to her boss, she becomes physically ill until she can no longer survive in the world she has created. This is a story based on the author’s own experiences of working for a spam company and being committed to a hospital. This report also includes supplemental planning documents used in the final draft. / text

本劇為原創電影劇本。故事意圖捕捉在三十歲階段，年輕人於追求理想抑或現實前途之迷惘。質疑自身天分的主角，徘迴於城鄉之間，在細瑣生活體驗中，思考計算何謂正確的人生進度，前顧後盼地決定下一步。 全文分為創作論述及劇本：創作論述部分，以說明創作背景、研究過程為始；再以結構主義的敘事理論，探討本劇的處理手法；最後，則是作品發表的評量回饋及創作檢討。劇本部分，包含電影本事、角色簡介、故事大綱、分場大綱及全劇劇本。

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Este mestrado utiliza os gêneros cinematográficos e suas convenções como ponto de partida para a escrita de roteiros. A análise de filmes de ação, conhecidos como filme de boxe, é usada como referência na escrita de um roteiro de longa metragem de um filme de luta, que trata mais especificamente do universo do MMA. Assim, meu mestrado tem dois resultados distintos e ao mesmo tempo complementares: um pequeno estudo do gênero proposto, sugerindo suas transformações, e o próprio roteiro de longa metragem, O Demônio do Ringue. / This dissertation uses the cinematographic genres and its conventions as starting point to the writing of screenplays. The analysis of action movies, known as boxing movies, is taken as reference in the writing of a fighting films screenplay, which approach more specifically the MMA universe. Hence, my dissertation has two distinct results which are complementary at the same time: first a study of the proposed genre, suggesting its transformations, and the movie screenplay itself, O Demônio do Ringue

Esta tese trata da criação do roteiro cinematográfico O Padre Voador. Acompanha o roteiro a memória de sua escrita, dividida em começo e meio. O começo narra o princípio da idéia e o envolvimento com a história de Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, em minha graduação na Letras; o início da pesquisa sobre o personagem e a escritura do argumento já no mestrado da mesma FFLCH-USP. No meio houve a possibilidade de sonhar com a realização do filme, daí a entrada no doutorado desta Escola de Comunicações e Artes sob a orientação do professor doutor Ismail Xavier, e o desenvolvimento da pesquisa sobre a época de Bartolomeu de Gusmão no Departamento de História. Do meio consta ainda o primeiro tratamento, submetido à atenciosa leitura dos professores doutores Flávio Aguiar e Roberto Moreira, no Exame de Qualificação. O fim é o segundo tratamento do roteiro, onde procurei absorver os valiosos pareceres dos professores e as fundamentais opiniões do orientador. / This term paper is about the creation of the screenplay O Padre Voador. Along with the screenplay we present the process of writing the script, divided into beginning and middle sections. The beginning narrates the idea and the involvement with the story of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, which I developed as a graduate student in Languages Arts. I completed the first steps of character development and the writing of the plot for my Masters Degree at FFLCH-USP. The middle section addresses the realization that my dream of producing the film could be true. Therefore I enrolled in the doctorate program at this Escola de Comunicações e Artes under the guidance of Professor Ismail Xavier. The historical study of the century in which Bartolomeu lived was made possible with the aid of the History Department. In the middle section we also find the first version of the screenplay, submitted to Professors Flavio Aguiar and Roberto Moreira during the qualifying exam. The end consists of the second version of the screenplay, where I tried to incorporate the professors\' valuable suggestions and the fundamental view of the advisor.