What is a screenplay?
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(2005)
Screenplay
the foundations of screenwriting
Revised edition.
by Syd Field
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"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'"--
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Screenplay: the foundations of screenwriting
2005, Delta Trade Paperbacks
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- Revised edition.
0307423263 9780307423269
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Table of Contents
What is a screenplay?
The subject
The creation of character
Building a character
Story and character
Endings and beginnings
Setting up the story
Two incidents
Plot points
The scene
The sequence
Building the story line
Screenplay form
Writing the screenplay
Adaptation
On collaboration
After it's written
A personal note.
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One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats.
Screenplay has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.
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