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The New SAT: Critical Reading and Writing
$2.14

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The New SAT: Critical Reading & Writing is developed by the same folks who brought you the award-winning Standard Deviants®, recommended by teachers and professors across the country. With humorous skits, graphics and an approachable format that simplify complex subjects, we give you strategies to maximize your time and score!

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Rock 'N Learn: Writing Strategies
$11.47

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Test-taking Strategies Writing Grad

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Writing A Great Script Fast: Part 13 Treatments & Finding Nemo 40 Plot Points
$20.00

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Story is the hardest thing to learn for most digital filmmakers these days since the technology has become so inexpensive and easy to use. How would you like to write a great script in about 24 hours while learning almost everything you need to know to tell brilliant visual stories for the rest of your life?

Part 13 of 19: Treatments & Finding Nemo 40 Points: Learn how to take your 40 plot points and write a solid treatment for a script. Have you ever wanted to create a Pixar level story? Watch as Finding Nemo is deconstructed using the 40 plot points in a variety of different ways.

Sections: 1. Writing A Treatment, 2. Finding Nemo 40 Plot Points

Based on the bestselling books "Maya 2 Character Animation" (1999 New Riders), and "Developing Digital Short Films" by Sherri Sheridan (2004 New Riders/ Peachpit/ Pearson). Part 13 of 19 from a 20-hour video workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast." This is the ultimate step-by-step story engine class for independent digital filmmakers and computer animators.

Covers the top 20 books on screenwriting, film and animation in easy to follow steps with 1000's of brainstorming ideas and story techniques learned along the way. Now being used as the main story class for structure in schools all over the world.

"This is a step-by-step guide to craft an award winning film without going bankrupt!" - Digital Dispatch News.

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Operation Homecoming - Writing the Wartime Experience
$12.88

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This pioneering film illuminates the extraordinary experiences of American servicemen and women through their own powerful stories. Based on the acclaimed NEA-sponsored book of the same name, this eloquent and moving (Entertainment Weekly) film offers a profound look at the lives of those serving in America s armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Distinguished actors like Robert Duvall, Beau Bridges and Aaron Eckhart give voice to the poems, stories, essays, letters, and journal entries of people on the frontlines. Weaving these dramatic readings with interviews with their authors, OPERATION HOMECOMING transforms the written word into a living, breathing look at the human side of America s current military conflicts. An honest and intensely personal look at war through firsthand accounts, this groundbreaking documentary adds depth to individual experiences by looking at them within the context of the long and venerable tradition of war writing. By turns poetic, comic, and chilling (Variety), this film gives voice to those heroes who have served and wish to share their experiences with the world.

DVD Features: Deleted Interview Clips; Poetry Reading; Men in Black Illustrated Storyboard; Making of the Short Film Featurette; Theatrical Trailer; 5.1 Sound

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The Standard Deviants - Learn Writing Basics
$12.03

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Writing Basics is a great DVD for anyone - students and non-students alike - who wants to write a terrific paper or polish his or her writing skills. This DVD will teach you everything from how to state and support a position, to collecting supporting information and writing a thesis statement. The Standard Deviants will help you become a better writer in no time!

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Writing A Great Script Fast: Part 12 Feature Film Plot Points & Symbolic Settings
$20.00

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Story is the hardest thing to learn for most digital filmmakers these days since the technology has become so inexpensive and easy to use. How would you like to write a great script in about 24 hours while learning almost everything you need to know to tell brilliant visual stories for the rest of your life?

Part 12 of 19: Feature Plot Points & Symbolic Settings: How easy would it be to write a feature script if you had a 40 plot point guide? The classic film Star Wars is broken down into 40 plot points then later used to show how the same type of structure applies to many other films such as Finding Nemo on DVD 13. Take each of your 40 plot points and attach a symbolic setting to help tell your story visually.

Sections: 1. 40 Feature Plot Points, 2. Symbolic Settings

Based on the bestselling books "Maya 2 Character Animation" (1999 New Riders), and "Developing Digital Short Films" by Sherri Sheridan (2004 New Riders/ Peachpit/ Pearson). Part 12 of 19 from a 20-hour video workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast." This is the ultimate step-by-step story engine class for independent digital filmmakers and computer animators.

Covers the top 20 books on screenwriting, film and animation in easy to follow steps with 1000's of brainstorming ideas and story techniques learned along the way. Now being used as the main story class for structure in schools all over the world.

"This is a step-by-step guide to craft an award winning film without going bankrupt!" - Digital Dispatch News.

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Getting Ahead: Reading and Writing
$35.72

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Open a new chapter in budding readers' lives with this captivating collection of programs that introduce basic reading and writing skills, and bring beloved storybooks to life. These delightful short films employ live-action and animation to enhance letter and word comprehension, and spelling skills, and will motivate children to read and write creatively. Teachers rely on these films in classrooms and now families can add them to their home library to refer to throughout the school year.

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Writers on Writing - Diablo Cody
$19.95

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Diablo Cody was born and raised in Chicago. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA-winning screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist and author who first came to the public's attention with her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. In 2007 Cody won wider fame as the writer of the hit film Juno (directed by Jason Reitman) for which she won the WGA Award, the BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2008.
During the filming and promotion of Juno, Cody wrote a horror-drama screenplay about a teenage cannibal called Jennifer's Body. Jennifer's Body was filmed from 2007 to 2008 and is set for a late 2009 release.
The United States of Tara, the television sitcom written by Cody, based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and starring Toni Collette, was picked up for 13 episodes (including pilot) by the U.S. cable TV network Showtime and Canadian channel The Movie Network and was renewed for a second season, after the airing of only four episodes.

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Writers on Writing - Inside the Writers Room with Lost
$24.95

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Lost is one of the hottest and most acclaimed television dramas in years. Join the Writers Guild Foundation for an in-depth panel discussion on the show with producers Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof and producer-writers Elizabeth Sarnoff, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis.

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Last Minute SAT Writing
$6.52

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This is a must-have program for every student preparing for the SAT. Last Minute SAT will help relieve the stress caused by this crucial exam and raise your SCORE! Getting a good score on the SAT is the key to getting into a good college. SAT Writing features easy-to-follow writing strategies and insight on the scoring procedure for the new essay section. This programming uses proven strategies to guide you through the writing process starting with outlining and identifying the topic sentence. All the writing basics are covered! By simplifying complex subjects and presenting the material with humorous skits, computer graphics and a fun, approachable format the Last Minute SAT students make even the most di cult process enjoyable!