1st Edition
The Screenwriters Taxonomy A Roadmap to Collaborative Storytelling
Introduction
I. Defining the Film
1. Movie Types
2. Super Genres
3. Macro Genres
4. Micro Genres
5. Case Studies
II. Refining the Film
6. Voice
7. Pathway
8. Point of View
9. Case Studies
Biography
Eric R. Williams has written professionally for American Movie Classics, Universal Studios, Grateful Films and Fox Interactive. His screenplays have been workshopped at the Film Independent Producers Lab in Los Angeles, and have won three prestigious awards: Best New Work from the Writers Guild of America, Award for Individual Excellence in Screenwriting from the Ohio Arts Council, and an Emmy Award for Interactive Media. Eric is also an award-winning educator and the inaugural director of the MFA in Communication Media Arts program at Ohio University, where he teaches screenwriting and virtual reality production. Eric earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, and his MFA at Columbia University in New York City. He is also the author of another book by Routledge, Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics (2017).
You can learn more by visiting his website: www.WilliamsOnStory.com
