How to build a great screenplay
Subtitle: a master class in storytelling for film
By: David Howard
Publisher: Souvenir
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780285637269
Subjects: Motion picture authorship
Description: Drawing on decades of pracitacl experience David Howard deconstructs the craft of screenwriting and reveals how to build a good story from the ground up.
Notes: Originally published: New York : St. Martin's, 2004.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The story; title: The telling of the story; title: The creation of drama; title: Foundations; title: Carpentry and craftsmanship; title: Time and storytelling; title: What is drama?; title: The three acts; title: Sequences; title: Crucial moments; title: Subplots; title: The classical screenplay structure; title: The single unbreakable rule of drama; title: Anything but classical screenplay structure; title: The limits of classical, the beginnings of revolutionary; title: How to shake up classical structure; title: and why; title: Before the first draft; title: The first draft; title: After the first draft.