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SCREENWRITING
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| This ultimate insider's guide to
screenwriting is designed to get you past the
fiercest gatekeepers in Hollywood: the Hollywood
script readers. This small army of freelancers
will be among the first to read and evaluate
your script and then to recommend it -- or not
-- to the studios, directors, and stars.
Designed for quick and easy access, these 500
points are a step-by-step recipe. They cannot
guarantee success, but failure to follow them
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| Long considered the bible for storytellers,
Aristotle's Poetics is a fixture of college
courses on everything from fiction writing to
dramatic theory. Now story analyst Micheal Tierno
shows how this classic work can be an invaluable
resource for beginning and advanced screenwriters
or anyone interested in studying plot
structure. His quick wit and easy-to-follow explanations of
some of the Poetics' most difficult
passages illuminate one of the most important
books on story structure ever written. | | |
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| Hollywood
Creative Directories: are the bibles of the film and television
industry. Listings of Producers, Directors, Agents,
Production Resources, etc.. No one working
in Hollywood or trying to break into the film industry
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| If you're
writing your first script, this book will help develop your
skills for telling a compelling story. If you're a veteran
screenwriter, this book will articulate the skills you know.
And if you're stuck on a rewrite, this book will help you
analyze and solve the problems and get you back "on track."
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| In
scriptwriting, it's not just the writing but also the
rewriting that counts. Making a Good Script Great focuses on
the rewriting process and offers specific methods to help you
craft tighter, stronger, and more workable scripts. |
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Based
on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great
Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of
philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and
insightful anecdotes alongside Truby’s own unique approach
for how to build an effective, multifaceted narrative.
The foundations of story that Truby lays out are so
fundamental, they are applicable—and essential—to all
writers, from novelists and short-story writers to
journalists, memoirists, and writers of narrative non-fiction.
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| Every issue of scr(i)pt Magazine brings you
in-depth interviews with some of today's best
screenwriters, along with news, reviews, and
columns that focus on the craft and business of
writing for film. From concept to sale, scr(i)pt
covers the screenwriting industry. |
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| This step-by-step guide has helped hundreds
of screenwriters get their scripts sold. Follow
Field's advice on structure, style, and technique
and you'll be able to move from concept to the
finished script. He thoroughly answers questions
about adaptation, collaboration and marketing.
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| Final
Draft 7 is spectacular. It lets me build my story on
scene cards, then allows me to see that outline and my
script pages at the same time. This is a tremendous tool
well worth the price of admission. With Final Draft 7,
they’ve moved from a software that formats your work
to one that actually helps you write better.. |
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| Do
you have a question about formatting or spec writing?
Now you can have all of Dr. Format's prescriptions in
one place. He addresses topics such as: How to handle
foreign languages, When you can "legally" use secondary
headings, How to streamline your scenes for a great
read, and much more. |
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| An
excellent primer for the new scriptwriter who needs to
know the formatting and style of submitting and
marketing your script. Fine list of resources for
courses, organizations and costs, and interesting
checkpoint system to rev up your characters and your
plot. | |
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| Based
on great movies from the 1930s to the present day - from
Rashomon to Jerry Maguire -- this is an in-depth
analysis of how form and function can combine to
successfully bring a story to
life.
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Crafty
Screenwriting: Writing Movies that Get Made
Alex
Epstein |
| Screenwriting
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Most
screenwriting books focus on how to write a "good"
screenplay. But in the movie business, a screenplay isn't
"good" unless it might one day get made into a
movie. Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not
only to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the
trade, but to explain what development executives really
mean when they complain that the "dialogue is
flat," or "the hero isn't likeable." Fresh,
provocative, and funny, Alex Epstein diagnoses problem that
other screenwriting books barely address, and answers
questions they rarely ask, like "Why is it sometimes
dangerous to know your characters too well before you start
writing," or "Why does your script have to be so
much better than the awful pictures that get made every
day?" As a development executive who has accepted and
rejected countless screenplays, and a produced screenwriter
himself, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most
important question of all: "Is this a movie?" A
crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes
to get their movie made.
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