Protivorechie. Perevertysh. Paradoks. ...

The secret of the film's viewer success lies in three words: contradiction, inversion, paradox. 'Put a paradox at the heart of the plot. Let contradiction become an inherent character trait. The shifter is one way to solve a scene artistically...' - says screenwriter and drama theory teacher Oleg Sirotkin. In the audiobook, he gives clear examples of how these techniques are implemented in film, and helps authors work on the script from the idea to the first draft. Through an analysis of the cult film 'The Matrix,' Oleg Sirotkin gives a clear and simple scheme of the film's script structure. He also discusses the specifics of domestic screenwriting and analyzes the peculiarities of screenwriting for films of different genres and formats: from feature-length films to ultra-short web series.