Blake Snyder has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 83 ratings. The most-rated is Save the Cat!.
Save the Cat!
Summary
Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying. Others include these: The four elements of every winning logline The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics The 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by - and why they're important to your script Why your hero must serve your idea Mastering the 15 beats Creating the perfect beast by using the board to map 40 scenes with conflict and emotional change How to get back on track with proven rules for script repair This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat.
©2005 Blake Snyder (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Save the Cat! Strikes Back
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The only Save the Cat! book on audio! This is the unabridged audiobook, which runs six hours and three minutes and includes a PDF of supplementary material. The book is read by MacLeod Andrews and was produced and directed by Arthur G. Insana. Blake Snyder, author of Save the Cat! and Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies, has delivered the audiobook countless readers and students have clamored for. Inspired by questions from his workshops, lectures, and emails, Blake listened to you and provides new tips, tactics, and techniques to solve your writing problems and create stories that resonate: The seven warning signs that you might have a great idea - or not Two surefire templates for can't-miss loglines The difference between structure and formula The Transformation Machine that allows you to track your hero's growth step by step The five questions to keep your story's spine straight The Five-Point Finale to finish any story The Save the Cat!® Greenlight Checklist that gets to the heart of every development issue The right way to hear notes, deal with problematic producers, and dive in to the rewrite with the right attitude Why and when an agent will appear How to discover the potential for greatness in any story How to avoid panic, doubt, and self-recrimination...and what it takes to succeed and dare to achieve your dreams Get ready to face trouble like a pro...and strike back! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2009 Estate of Blake Snyder (P)2014 Blake Snyder Enterprises, LLC
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies
Summary
In the perfect companion piece to his first book, Blake Snyder delivers even more insider information gleaned from a 20-year track record as one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters. Designed for screenwriters, novelists, and movie fans, this book gives listeners key breakdowns of the 50 most instructional movies from the past 30 years. From M*A*S*H to Crash, Alien to Saw, and 10 to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snyder reveals how screenwriters in the past tackled the same challenges faced by screenwriters today.
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC