Screenwriting Behind Enemy Lines

Author : John Schimmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615931675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screenwriting Behind Enemy Lines written by John Schimmel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior studio executive and producer John Schimmel calls on more than 20 years working as a producer and senior executive in both the studio and indie worlds to provide an insider's guide to the art, craft, and business of screenwriting.

Author : Blake Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615931712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save the Cat! written by Blake Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Author : Tom Stempel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Screenwriting written by Tom Stempel and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Xander Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136038655
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screenwriting Tips, You Hack written by Xander Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriting Tip #99 Voice-over usually feels like scaffolding. You know-something you left in there when you were constructing the first draft, but really should have torn out after it served its purpose. Screenwriting Tip #120 Always remember that funny trumps everything. Your script could be written in crayon with your name spelled wrong on the cover, but if it's genuinely funny, none of that matters. Screenwriting Tip #156 The easiest way to write kick-ass protagonists is to make them incredibly good at what they do. Confused at the outline stage? Stuck in the swamp of Act Two? Don't know who your protagonist is or where she's going? You might feel like a hack. But don't worry-you're not alone. Even the most experienced writers feel like this at times. Sometimes we just need a few short pointers and reminders to set us on the path again. Xander Bennett worked as a script reader in the trenches of Hollywood, reading and covering hundreds of mediocre screenplays. After months of reading about heroic Sea World trainers, transgendered circus detectives and crime-fighting chupacabras, he couldn't take it any more. Xander started a blog called 'Screenwriting Tips, You Hack', a place designed to provide short, witty tips on screenwriting for amateur writers all the way up to journeymen scribes. This book is the evolution of that blog. Dozens of the best scripts (along with many brand-new ones) have been expanded into bite-sized chapters full of funny, insightful, highly usable advice. Let Xander's pain be your gain as you learn about the differences between film and television structure, how to force yourself to write when you really don't want to, and why you probably shouldn't base your first spec script around an alien invasion.

Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781784530211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screenwriting written by Andrew Horton and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, craft, business and history of filmmaking from inception to reality. Screenwriting is where a movie begins. Written by screenwriters and critics, this innovative book is devoted to the art of the screenwriter and the business of screenwriting from Hollywood's silent beginnings to the global multimedia marketplace. Focusing on key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond and on films from The Birth of a Nation to Chinatown and Lost in Translation, the book reveals the profound ways in which screenwriters contribute to films, as they try to capture the hopes and dreams, the nightmares and concerns of the period in which they are writing. It is compelling reading for film lovers, screenwriters & film students, industry professionals - anyone interested in the creative collaboration that creates the movies we see on the screen.

Author : Blake Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615931729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save the Cat Goes to the Movies written by Blake Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice for budding screenwriters on how to handle the challenges of writing a Hollywood script and includes insider information on the most popular genres in Hollywood as well as references to 500 movie "cousins" to help guide the script writing process.

Author : Syd Field
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307570053
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Screenwriter's Problem Solver written by Syd Field and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All writing is rewriting. But what do you change, and how do you change it? All screenplays have problems. They happened to Die Hard: With a Vengeance and Broken Arrow-and didn't get fixed, leaving the films flawed. They nearly shelved Platoon-until Oliver Stone rewrote the first ten pages and created a classic. They happen to every screenwriter. But good writers see their problems as a springboard to creativity. Now bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make movies brilliant-secrets that can make your screenplay one headed for success...or even Cannes. Learn how to: •Understand what makes great stories work •Make your screenplay work in the first ten pages, using Thelma & Louise and Dances With Wolves as models •Use a "dream assignment" to let your creative self break free overnight •Make action build character, the way Quentin Tarantino does •Recover when you hit the "wall"-and overcome writer's block forever

Author : Paul Joseph Gulino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628925124
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screenwriting written by Paul Joseph Gulino and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about fifteen pages each, and by focusing on solving the dramatic aspects of each of these sequences in detail, a writer can more easily conquer the challenges posed by the script as a whole. The sequence approach has its foundation in early Hollywood cinema (until the 1950s, most screenplays were formatted with sequences explicitly identified), and has been rediscovered and used effectively at such film schools as the University of Southern California, Columbia University and Chapman University. This book exposes a wide audience to the approach for the first time, introducing the concept then providing a sequence analysis of eleven significant feature films made between 1940 and 2000: The Shop Around The Corner / Double Indemnity / Nights of Cabiria / North By Northwest / Lawrence of Arabia / The Graduate / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Toy Story / Air Force One / Being John Malkovich / The Fellowship of the Ring

Author : Shelly Frome
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482672
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Craft of Screenwriting written by Shelly Frome and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for screenwriters and those interested in the screenwriting process has important information on every facet of the screenwriter's trade. Introductory chapters discuss skills essential for all screenwriters. The second part covers various options available to screenwriters (such as different genres, indie films, adaptation) with important methods for each. Part Three is a collection of revealing interviews by the author with several established and seasoned professionals. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Michael Chase Walker
Publisher : Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781580650410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Screenwriting written by Michael Chase Walker and published by Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Joseph Campbell and the much ballyhooed hero's journey, Michael Chase Walker takes the aspiring screenwriter into the rarely discusses alternative structures of outlaw stories, inverted myths and Messiah tales.