Screenwriting: A ManualCovering all forms of screenwriting, this is a wide-ranging and accessbile guide to industry practices and principles. While providing a comprehensive and considered approach to presenting work, it allows for a great deal of creative freedom. With script extracts, original storyboards, and narrative ideas for multimedia, the book offers concrete examples of successful and expressive screenwriting within the described production formats. It also contains exercises for generating and shaping the various elements of a script, an appendix on copyright and other legal issues, and a glossary of terms. |
Contents
Starting Out | 1 |
Getting Ideas | 5 |
How to Begin Your Script | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Scriptwriting Updated: New and Conventional Ways of Writing for the Screen Linda Aronson Limited preview - 2000 |