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STORYALITY Screenwriting Manual - or, PLOTTING PROFITABLE PICTURES - A Screenwriting Manual based on The Common Patterns and Practises in the Top 20 RoI (Return on Investment) Films of the Past 70 Years - by JT Velikovsky. (Feature Films, Motion Pictures, Screenplays, Screenwriting).
STORYALITY Screenwriting Manual edition by JT Velikovsky Arts Photography eBooks
This feels very like an academic thesis. Wonder what it all means? There is no central theme here at all. Can't pin this one down as useful in any material way. Fibonacci Return on Investment? How is that a Screenwriting Manual? For that matter how is a bunch of lists got anything to do with the Fibonacci Principle? I've seen far too many authors illustrate their assertions by associating them with Blockbuster films or novels - for example, Kal Bashir does it... and a dozen others. Weighty but implausible.It feels a lot like the academic research notebook results of hours and hours trawling the internet and sitting in a well-stocked library with index cards all over the desk next to piles and piles of esoteric cobwebbed paperbacks as primary sources.
I wonder what the argument of the thesis is? It might have some gravitas - can't really tell from this though. It is certainly not a Screenwriting Manual.
I don't think the author had an audience in mind - it's more an, 'admire me, I'm an academic - I know everything' tome.
The Nautilus shell concept caught my eye - but it was't paid off. Claimed, yes - but not argued, proved or disproved. It seemed to be a diagram with random labels stuck on it by a thousand Chimpanzees.
It just left me bewildered.
If the author completely eliminated the Fibonacci idea and stuck with the financials and ROI he might just have a point - and a thesis, not a Screenwriting manual, but a thesis. At the moment it is an Honours level mish-mash purporting to be a PhD. Can't be anything else. Can't be.
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STORYALITY Screenwriting Manual edition by JT Velikovsky Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
It is always interesting to look for patterns that could be the cause of success. The author makes elegant use of a fibonacci diagram to represent the fundamental progression of successful scripts, screenplays and movies and backs it up with some solid numbers and facts.
Of course it would be interesting to know what proportion of the unsuccessful films used this approach as a control group. It is always said that correlation is not causation, so patterns once found must be treated with caution until sufficient evidence is generated.
This is a review that is easily read and covers the topic thoroughly and would make useful reading for anyone interested in screenwriting.
J T Velikovsky’s screenwriting manual, Storyality, offers a fascinating time-line/page-count approach to designing a screenplay or story based on the Golden Ratio. I would love to have seen more analysis and explanation of this, particularly as the golden spiral is so frequently drawn in the book, and decorates its cover. Sadly, the golden ratio plays only a very small part in the book’s analyses, and its use in screenplay covers very few pages, despite its importance to mathematics and aesthetics.
The author frequently mentions “scientific and empirical” approaches in this book, but his explanation and use of the scientific method is scientifically flawed. His hypotheses and conclusions are deliberately never tested on random samples, with a claim that this would invalidate his empirical approach.
Assuming first-time percentage return-on-investment really is the measure of a movie-writer’s future success (another untested theory), the lists and analyses of top and bottom twenty movies in this book are certainly interesting, if occasionally quirky. For example, I’d disagree with the author’s conclusion that bad guys win in many of his listed movies, since they only win to the extent that doors are left open for sequels. That said, the lists are good, and the idea of analyzing movies is certainly interesting. I just wish the approach had been more genuinely scientific.
Storyality reads, in many parts, like a doctoral thesis in the making. It would certainly be intriguing to see if any of the author’s conclusions really do bear up to scientific testing. For myself though, I just want to know how the golden ratio plays out.
Disclosure I was given a free ecopy and I offer my honest review.
Fascinating and unique look at the factors leading to successful scripts and successful films. Not the usual screenwriting manual by any means. Read it.
Not a book on writing more a collection of stats to prove a point about R.O.I.
Published numbers doesn't make them true numbers
Horror sells tickets but does it produce anything more than a possible one time shot
How many PhDs are full time screenwriters
One step above most digitals (has repeat items)
Does provide an alternative view, word defining games and WEB material for your collection
If you are not short on cash, take a chance you my get lucky
Then again when was the last time you beat the odds
A nice hidden gem! Looking forward to applying the findings noted in this book. Very easy to read several times over and a use consistently as a resource guide.
This is a great, insightful book! Anyone who is interested in the science behind why certain movies make money will appreciate it
This feels very like an academic thesis. Wonder what it all means? There is no central theme here at all. Can't pin this one down as useful in any material way. Fibonacci Return on Investment? How is that a Screenwriting Manual? For that matter how is a bunch of lists got anything to do with the Fibonacci Principle? I've seen far too many authors illustrate their assertions by associating them with Blockbuster films or novels - for example, Kal Bashir does it... and a dozen others. Weighty but implausible.
It feels a lot like the academic research notebook results of hours and hours trawling the internet and sitting in a well-stocked library with index cards all over the desk next to piles and piles of esoteric cobwebbed paperbacks as primary sources.
I wonder what the argument of the thesis is? It might have some gravitas - can't really tell from this though. It is certainly not a Screenwriting Manual.
I don't think the author had an audience in mind - it's more an, 'admire me, I'm an academic - I know everything' tome.
The Nautilus shell concept caught my eye - but it was't paid off. Claimed, yes - but not argued, proved or disproved. It seemed to be a diagram with random labels stuck on it by a thousand Chimpanzees.
It just left me bewildered.
If the author completely eliminated the Fibonacci idea and stuck with the financials and ROI he might just have a point - and a thesis, not a Screenwriting manual, but a thesis. At the moment it is an Honours level mish-mash purporting to be a PhD. Can't be anything else. Can't be.
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