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

From Library Journal
Screenplay is one of the bibles of the film trade and has launched many a would-be screenwriter on the road to Hollywood. This third edition is updated to include the specifics of writing via computer.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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?


From the Publisher
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?

FROM OUR EDITORS

A real gem on the craft of screenwriting, this third edition provides easily understood guidelines for writing a screenplay, from concept to finished product. The author makes the art of film writing accessible to novices and helps practiced writers improve their scripts, as he pinpoints stylistic and structural elements such as characterization and plot (and why the first ten pages are crucial). Provides tips and techniques on screenplay format; collaborations; adaptations; what to do after your screenplay is written; more. The highly-regarded scripts of Chinatown and Silver Streak are used to illustrate concepts. "Syd Field is the preeminent analyzer in the study of American screenplays." -- James L. Brooks, Academy Award-winning writer, director, producer.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The classic guide to writing screenplays, by screenplay guru Syd Field. A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script. Third edition.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal