Scriptwriting for the screen

✍ Scribed by Moritz, Charlie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Media skills
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"If I was setting out as a screenwriter, this is the book I would read first and keep by me'- Melanie Harris, Producer, Crosslab Productions'An excellent resource for students and teachers alike'- In the Picture' ... a valuable addition to every screenwriting bookshelf"--Screentalk'This is one of the best guides to help screenwriters think visually that I have ever read' - Creative Screenwriting'The inventive exercises in Scriptwriting for the Screen.  Read more...

Abstract:

A guide to writing for film and television. It details the first principles of screenwriting and advises on the best way to identify and formulate a story and develop ideas in order to build a vivid, animated and entertaining script. It introduces the reader to essential skills needed to write effective drama.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Scripting stories: some first principles --
2. Ideas into action --
3. Just picture it: visualising the action --
4. Character: the 'Who?' and the 'How?' of characters in action --
5. Dialogue --
6. Making scenes, building sequences --
7. Adaptation --
8. Metaphor and moment: deepening your drama --
9. Subtext --
10. Pulling it all together.

✦ Subjects

Motion picture authorship.;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.;REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.