Screenplay
Subtitle: the foundations of screenwriting
By: Syd Field
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780307423269
Subjects: Motion picture authorship; Cinéma; Art d'écrire; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Composition & Creative Writing; Rhetoric; REFERENCE; Writing Skills
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'"--
Table of contents: title: What is a screenplay?; title: The subject; title: The creation of character; title: Building a character; title: Story and character; title: Endings and beginnings; title: Setting up the story; title: Two incidents; title: Plot points; title: The scene; title: The sequence; title: Building the story line; title: Screenplay form; title: Writing the screenplay; title: Adaptation; title: On collaboration; title: After it's written; title: A personal note.