Film Scriptwriting

A Practical Manual
2. Auflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-240-51190-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

This second edition of the widely acclaimed Film Scriptwriting is a truly practical manual for the working writer. It provides all the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to script both fact and feature film and video - from getting and developing ideas to the writing of master scene or shooting script.
Featured in this new edition are annotated excerpts from some of today's most successful films, selected to point up principles and techniques discussed. Interviews with working film specialists reveal the things professional directors, producers, story editor, and analysts look for in appraising the scripts that come across their desks.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swain, Dwight V

Swain, Joye R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceForewardFilm and YouPart One: The Fact FilmThe Proposal OutlineThe Film TreatmentThe Sequence OutlineThe Shooting ScriptWriting NarrationPart Two: The Feature FilmThe Film StoryThe Film CharacterThe Story TreatmentThe Art of ConfrontationThe Step OutlineDialogue DevicesThe Master Scene ScriptPart Three: The Tricks of the TradeAdaptation and Its ProblemsSurviving Story ConferencesThe Scriptwriter as BusinesspersonWhat You Should Know About.Lessons from the ProsThe Other SideYou and FilmAppendices:The StoryboardJudging Screen TimeFor Further ReadingTerms You'll UseWriters' Guild of AmericaWriters' Guild of Great Britain

Über Autor(innen)

Dwight V. Swain