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

Syd Field

ISBN 10: 0440576474 / ISBN 13: 9780440576471

Editore: Dell, 1984

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.66. Codice articolo G0440576474I3N10

Riassunto:

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?

Informazioni sull?autore: Syd Field is a screenwriter, producer, teacher, international lecturer, and author of the bestselling books Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Workbook, Selling a Screenplay, and Four Screenplays. Published in 1982, Screenplay has been translated into sixteen languages, and is used in more than 250 colleges and universities across the country. At present he is creative consultant to the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, and South Africa, and has been a script consultant for Roland Jaffe's film production company, for Alfonso Arau and Laura Esquivel on Like Water for Chocolate, and for Tri-Star Pictures. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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Titolo: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting...
Casa editrice: Dell
Data di pubblicazione: 1984
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket
Edizione: terza edizione