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20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay - A Thorough Primer for Screenwriters
A practical, concrete, primer that teaches beginning through advanced screenwriters the skills necessary to write the most popular types of screenplays being produced in Hollywood today It also includes…
A Screen Acting Workshop + DVD
A comprehensive training course in screen acting by an internationally renowned teacher and acting coach who has worked with actors of all backgrounds and experience - from drama school students at the…
Adaptations - A Guide to Adapting Literature to Film
Turning a 250-page novel or a two-and-a-half-hour stage play into a 90-minute film means leaving out much of the original and changing most of what’s left So why does it remain recognisably the same story?…
Beginning Filmmaking - 100 easy steps from Script to Screen - Professional Media Practice
Principles, practice, and techniques - the ultimate guide for the aspiring filmmaker This inspirational book offers a complete introductory course in film making skills, and techniques, with 100 easy projects…
Completely Hollywood - Abridged
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They’ve gone Biblical, they’ve gone Historical, this time the zany Reduced Shakespeare Company has gone Completely Hollywood ... ... Abridged, of course! The "Bad Boys of Abridgment" have reduced 197 movies…
Could It Be a Movie? - How to Get Your Ideas from Out of Your Head and Up on the Screen
Before you stock your shelves with books on how to write a film, this is the roadmap you need to determine if cinema is the best destination for your creative ideas How do you tell the difference between…
Creating Unforgettable Characters - A Practical Guide to Character Development in Film - TV Series & Adverts & Novels & Short Stories
A practical and comprehensive guide to creating strong characters in fiction Discusses back stories, psychology, research, relationships, supporting characters, stereotypes and character problems, and…
Developing Characters for Script Writing
Dealing with the creation and writing of characters for stage, radio & screen, this presents numerous pratical examples of the art and craft of character, plot and audience identification
Dramatists Sourcebook 23rd Edition - Complete Opportunities for Playwrights & Translators & Composers & Lyricists and Librettists
Now in its 23rd edition, this best-selling guide for opportunities for stage writers is completely revised, with more than 900 opportunities for playwrights, translators, composers, lyricists and librettists,…
From Script to Screen - The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking
What goes into the making of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures? Join the authors as they examine recent screenplays such as Thelma & Lousie, Witness and A Beautiful Mind on their perilous…
International Film Guide 2004 - The Ultimate Annual Review of World Cinema
Designed for film lovers, students, critics, producers, directors and festival programmers, this annual review of world cinema offers reports from 75 countries bringing readers up to date on the latest…
Laughing Out Loud - Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay
Identifying the essential elements of comedy and classifying comedy as a perspective rather than merely as a genre, this is an invaluable book for those wishing to pursue a career in writing Blending history,…
Making a Good Script Great - A Guide for Writing and Rewriting
Offering useful advice on working on a first-draft, Seger outlines methods to help writers craft their work to create stronger scripts This top selling guide for writers focuses on rewriting - how to solve…
Making a Good Writer Great - A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters
This new addition to Linda Seger's indispensable collection of books combines advice on how to awaken creativity with a practitical knowledge of screenwriting Itv teaches writers how to be creative within…
Playwriting in Process - Thinking and Working Theatrically
Written to encourage new and experienced playwrights to build techniques for a greater range of creative expression in writing for the stage, the book uses exercises or etudes to guide playwrights towards…
Screen Adaptations - Shakespeare’s King Lear - A Close Study of the Relationship between Text and Film Screen Adaptations
This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic “offshoots”) and discusses ... the literary text in its historical…
Screenplay - The Foundations of Screenwriting
A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field’s bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic…
Screenplay - The Rewrite
The quintessential guide for screenwriters, whether it is the first screenplay or the one hundredth, it helps create the perfect script by offering step-by-step guidance on how to focus and polish writing,…
Screenwriting for Teens - The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know
This books gives teens, who go to the movies more than any age group, the tools to do more than just watch those movies - it gives them the tools to write their own films Targeted to the interests and…
Story - Substance & Structure & Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
In Story screenwriting guru Robert McKee presents his powerful and much sought-after knowledge in a comprehensive guide to the essentials of screenwriting and storytelling Using hundreds of films as examples,…
The Art of Dramatic Writing - Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Amid the hundreds of “how-to” books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction This book does just that - and…
The Dramatists Toolkit - The Craft of the Working Playwright
This is a practical guide to being a working playwright. The author discusses such matters as - the building blocks of playwriting; how characters relate to one another; the differences and similarities…
The Insider’s Guide to Writing for Screen and Television
The truth about writing for film and television is examined in this highly instructive book Reveals the creative, political, and financial concerns of writing for film and television in interviews with…
The Screenplay Workbook - The Writing before the Writing
This instructional manual, combined with proprietary worksheets, charts and fill-in lists, is designed to give screenwriters a better way to focus on the task of writing a screenplay The worksheets will…
