Authors@Google: Richard Krevolin May 16, 2011

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Richard Krevolin visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "Screenwriting in The Land of Oz: The Wizard on Writing, Living, and Making It In Hollywood". This event took place on May 11, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Richard Krevolin is a veteran teacher, author, and storyteller. A graduate of Yale University, Professor K holds master's degrees from both UCLA and USC. He's taught writing classes at USC Cinema/TV School as well as UCLA Film School, Ithaca, and Pepperdine. His students have sold film scripts and TV shows to Universal, Sony-Tri-Star, Paramount, Dreamworks SKG, and others.

This book uses the paradigm of the structure of the Wizard of Oz as its basis. It also takes the convention of the epistolary novel and uses emails back and forth as a way to teach tenets and techniques of not just screenwriting, but storytelling.