Based on the Screenwriting 434 graduate-level seminar at the University of California Los Angeles, this book guides readers/students through every step of the screenwriting process by putting them through the actual writing of an original script. Chapters in the book are: (1) Ideas; (2) The Two-Minute Movie; (3) Building Your Characters; (4) The Outline for You and "Them"; (5) The Act One Script; (6) The Act Two Script; (7) The Act Three Script; and (8) The Rewrite(s). (RS)