The Complete Book of Scriptwriting - Softcover

J. Michael Straczynski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852868821 ISBN 13: 9781852868826

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

The creator of the television science-fiction series "Babylon 5" presents a guide to writing and selling screenplays, television plays, theatrical plays, radio scripts and animation scripts. He explains how to structure and lay out the scripts, provides a guide to terminology used by the industry, and offers advice on getting work seen by the right people. The book also includes the complete script of a "Babylon 5" episode, "The Coming of Shadows", for which Straczynski won the Hugo Award.

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Review:

Working writer/producer Straczynski has revised his 1981 text -- a standard in many institutions -- and brought it into the '90s, with updates on fluctuating markets, speculation about opportunities in CD-ROMs and anecdotage about Writers' Guild strikes that have occurred in the interval. A handy tome for the novice, since Straczynski covers much basic ground in key areas of writing for film, television, radio, animation and stage. Strongest in the movie/TV areas and also valuable for animation scribes, playwrights might note that their chapter is the thinnest; perhaps it was all apportioned according to what the various disciplines pay?

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1852868821
• ISBN 13: 9781852868826
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432