Screenwriting: A Manual

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Oxford University Press, 2000 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 230 pages
Covering 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.

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Contents

Starting Out
1
Getting Ideas
5
How to Begin Your Script
12
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

JonathonDawsonAssociate Professor, School of Film, Media and Cultural StudiesGriffith University.

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