Film Scriptwriting: A Practical Manual

ISBN-13: 9780240511900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 432 str.

Dwight V. Swain

Opis

Step-by-step guidance to scripting both fact and feature film and video. Insights from people in the film and TV industry who judge, select, and implement scripts. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Spis treści

Preface
Foreward
Film and You
Part One: The Fact Film
The Proposal Outline
The Film Treatment
The Sequence Outline
The Shooting Script
Writing Narration
Part Two: The Feature Film
The Film Story
The Film Character
The Story Treatment
The Art of Confrontation
The Step Outline
Dialogue Devices
The Master Scene Script
Part Three: The Tricks of the Trade
Adaptation and Its Problems
Surviving Story Conferences
The Scriptwriter as Businessperson
What You Should Know About ...
Lessons from the Pros
The Other Side
You and Film
Appendices:
The Storyboard
Judging Screen Time
For Further Reading
Terms You'll Use
Writers' Guild of America
Writers' Guild of Great Britain

O autorze

Dwight V. Swain