Search - Screenplay : The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script

Screenplay : The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script
Larger
Screenplay : The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script
Author: Syd Field

Book Information
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:

ISBN-13: 9780440576471 - ISBN-10: 0440576474
Publication Date: 7/1/1984
Pages: 272


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:
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?

Members who requested this book also requested:

Similar books to this author and title:
The Screenwriter's Workbook


Genres:

Top Member Book Reviews

Jo M. wrote on 3/30/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Easily understood guidelines to make film writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts.


Please Rate these Book Reviews

Mark D. (Jarhead) wrote on 4/19/2006...


You want to write a screenplay? First of all find some better way to spend your time, but if you insist, here's how.

Angela S. (echo123) wrote on 2/14/2006...


Fantastic basic elements.


Book Wiki
Series
Original Publication Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
People/Characters
Real Places
Fictional Places
Important Events
Awards and Honors