Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script

Field, Syd

ISBN 10: 0440576474 / ISBN 13: 9780440576471

Published by Dell, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script
• Publisher: Dell
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440576474
• ISBN 13: 9780440576471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

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?

About the Author

Syd Field is a screenwriter, producer, teacher, international lecturer, and author of the bestselling books Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Workbook, Selling a Screenplay, and Four Screenplays. Published in 1982, Screenplay has been translated into sixteen languages, and is used in more than 250 colleges and universities across the country. At present he is creative consultant to the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Austria, and South Africa, and has been a script consultant for Roland Jaffe's film production company, for Alfonso Arau and Laura Esquivel on Like Water for Chocolate, and for Tri-Star Pictures. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.