The complete idiot's guide to screenwriting
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Indianapolis, IN :
Alpha Books,
©2001
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| Colección: | (The Complete idiot's guide)
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| Acceso en línea: | Solamente incluye tabla de contenido |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: The evolution of storytelling. History lessons make better writers. That fellow Shakespeare. Birth of the movies. From scenario to screenplay. From the big screen to the computer screen.
- Part 2: What to write. Sources for movie ideas that will sell. Movies are not books or plays. What your audience really wants to see. Defining your movie. What's hot, what´s not, and what´s in your heart. Your screenwriting schedule and why it is essential.
- Part 3: How to write your screenplay. Preparing your outline and reordering scenes. The all-important first ten pages. The structure of Hollywood movies. Writing the feature film. The screenplay, Step by step. The rewrite is the secret. Polish makes perfect.
- Part 4: Post-script possibilities. What a reading can show you. Why the screenplay is merely a blueprint. The real role of the screenwriter. Writing for television. Short films and the digital age.
- Part 5: It's al in the details. Sweating the small stuff. Fixing amateur technical mistakes. The Mentor merry-go-round. The truth about selling scripts. Plotting your screenwriting career.
- Index.