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Tim Minear is smart. Learn from him and be smarter. Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) Breaking the Story is an exercise in breaking a single episode of a one-hour drama, with active audience participation. Armed with a white board and marker, Tim Minear guides the class through teaser and act breaks of an episode of the long-running WB hit television show, Angel. Students lob ideas toward the podium, and the best are rewarded with a place of honor on the whiteboard, where the episode takes shape over the next two hours. Minear listens carefully to every pitch, explaining why some ideas work, and why some will never make it to the board. He steers the group through a process that many professional writers find difficult: creating a story from scratch that services the characters, stays true to a theme, and how to survive getting an idea shot down in a room full of your peers with your ego in tact. Minear keeps the audience laughing with war stories from his own experiences in writers rooms, and follows the exercise with a Q&A session in which he explains how he wrote the spec that landed him a job on The X-Files along with his suggestions for writing a very dark I Love Lucy spec. Part of the Screenwriting Expo DVD Series, this 90-minute masters course is an exceptional value. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the finest faculty teaching screenwriting today.

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"This DVD is amazing... the best I've seen on the creative process. 60 minutes of observations on storytelling, TV, movies, and crafting tales that matter. Joss is funny and touching... he has incredible heart. This DVD is a 'must own' for every writer and lover of great storytelling." Erik Bauer, publisher of Creative Screenwriting and CEO of Promise Technologies, Inc. Feature and television writer Joss Whedon is the beloved creator of such television shows as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. He made his feature directorial debut with 2005's acclaimed Serenity and was kind enough to sit down at Screenwriting Expo 4 and talk about his career, history, and what inspires him to create. All the writing I do is genre writing.... I dont know how to work without genre. Joss Whedon An in-depth discussion with the master himself, this DVD reveals not only the secrets and stories behind Whedon's classic series and films, but also touches on tools you'll need to elevate your own writing. Where his ideas come from. Creating Buffy and Angel. The genesis of Firefly and the real story behind its cancellation. The pain of seeing your vision ruined. How writing Alien Resurrection changed his life as a writer. Writing on spec. Crafting the physical screenplay dos and donts. Writing like an actor thinks. Mixing genres. How to ride the rythyms of genres. How writing genre frees a writers personal expression. Looking for the moments that matter. How to find the underlying emotion. How to get on staff at a TV show like Buffy. Wonder Woman reboot.

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- Hosted by Adam Baldwin, Voice-Over by Jewel Staite and featuring interviews with cast, crew and dozens of fans like you, including: Alan Tudyk, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Buchanan, Greg Edmonson, Jewel Staite, Joss Whedon, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Loni Peristere, Margaret Weis, Mary Parent, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion, Orson Scott Card, Rafael Feldman, Ron Glass, Tim Minear, Tracy Hickman, and Yan Feldman.
- More special features than Fox's Firefly DVD and Universal's Serenity DVD combined.
- Interactive Timeline, Trivia Game, 'Verse Dictionary, What is Firefly? essay, Music Videos, Tribute to Lux, Charities Featurette, and Commentary.
- The DVD-ROM features a highly innovative, media-rich experience, and includes: the Interactive Viewing Experience and 6+ hours of Extended Interviews.
- Features unique music from the CD Soundtrack by these artists: The Bedlam Bards, Brobdingnagian Bards, Dan Sehane, Emerald Rose, Michelle Dockrey, Rob Kuhlman, and Tony Fabris.

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