Published in 2018
295 pages
Born in 1980, Kelly Goodner was born in Athens, Tennessee, but moved to West Palm Beach, Florida at the age of three. A gifted student, she attended an International Baccalaureate magnet program for high school, which allowed her to graduate with her BA in Film from the University of Central Florida in just two years.
She immediately began working in the entertainment industry and spent the next several years as a story consultant for several top talent agencies and production companies. Goodner then became a professional screenwriter, writing thrillers and romances for television.
She is now also writing, producing, and directing horror and thriller films for other markets, and she is the sole author of the Sceneclopedia series of filmmaking reference books. Goodner learned how to write screenplays by listing out the scenes of dozens of films for herself to study, and found them to be such an effective tool that she published them for others to use as well. She lives in Los Angeles with a Pitbull, two cats, and a man.
What is this book about?
Rather than teach rules or theory, Sceneclopedia offers facts. This is not only a screenwriting book, but a reference book for filmmakers of all types, from executive to editor. If you need to study an entire film at a glance or want to compare multiple films within seconds, you need Sceneclopedia.
Whether you’re looking to create something entirely new or recreate something that has been proven to work, this book provides you with a sampling of what has come before, with a level of detail offered nowhere else. Kelly Goodner was a Hollywood script consultant with over a decade of experience. These scene lists turned her into a professional screenwriter with no other day job. She initially made these lists for her own education, but is now making them available to you.
Contains the complete scene lists for: Alien, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Carrie, The Changeling, Drag Me to Hell, The Exorcist, The Fly, Frankenstein, Halloween, Hostel, The Howling, It Follows, The Lost Boys, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Night of the Living Dead, The Omen, Poltergeist, Re-Animator, The Ring, Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining, Sinister, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
