Synopsis Here are easily understood guidelines to make film writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writng the script that will succeed: How do you collaborate successfully with someone else? How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay? How do you market your script?
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2005-11-29 |
| Size | | Length: | 320 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's Note From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script..
Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed.
-Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important?
- How do you collaborate successfully with someone else?
-How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay?
-How do you market your script?
Industry Reviews "Quite simply the only manual to be taken seriously by aspiring screenwriter." Tony Bill
"A much-needed book." Frank Pierson
"The complete primer, a step-by-step guide from the first glimmer of an idea to marketing the finished script." Bill
"Full of common sense, an uncommon commodity." Bill
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