Go On Your Own Quest, Week 2: Concept

Several readers emailed me about aggregating the entire series of posts we have been running in association with the Go On Your Own Quest initiative.

Here is Week 2: Concept.

If there is one movie’s story concept you could have come up with, what would it be?

How do you generate story concepts?

How do you determine which story concept to write as a spec script?

How do you define “high concept”?

What are the essential parts of a logline?

Plot. Concept. Character. Style. Dialogue. Scene. Theme. Time. The eight subject areas of the Core curriculum and a way to dig into screenwriting theory.

For more information on the Core classes, go here.