Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Film - Screenwriting

"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages."
--Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times

Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization focused on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight from masters, as well as refreshing veterans with new ideas. To extend the festival's reach, AFF...

Breaking In: Tales from the Screenwriting Trenches is a no-nonsense, boots-on-the-ground exploration of how writers REALLY go from emerging to professional in today s highly saturated and competitive screenwriting space. With a focus on writers who have gotten representation and broken into the TV or feature film space after the critical 2008 WGA strike and financial market collapse, the reader will learn from tangible examples of how success was achieved via hard work and specific methodology. The book explores information gathered from case studies, as well as writer s anecdotes...

Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an approachable anecdote-infused style that's full of humor, Bauer shows the writer how to put the pieces together, taking the process of screenwriting out of the cerebral and on to the page. Part One of the book covers character, location, time-frame and dialogue, emphasizing the particularity in writing for a visual medium. Part Two of the book focuses on the narrative aspect of...

Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an approachable anecdote-infused style that s full of humor, Bauer shows the writer how to put the pieces together, taking the process of screenwriting out of the cerebral and on to the page. Part One of the book covers character, location, time-frame and dialogue, emphasizing the particularity in writing for a visual medium. Part Two of the book focuses on the narrative aspect of...

"Nobody Knows Anything" and "Structure is Everything." In two pithy statements, screenwriting legend William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Misery; The Princess Bride; Marathon Man), brilliantly encapsulates the essence of the film industry.

With Screenwriting Unchained, Emmanuel Oberg navigates a perilous journey between these two islands of truth. His refreshingly new approach to story structure leads to a powerful yet flexible way to handle the script development process: the Story-Type...

Breaking In: Tales from the Screenwriting Trenches is a no-nonsense, boots-on-the-ground exploration of how writers REALLY go from emerging to professional in today s highly saturated and competitive screenwriting space. With a focus on writers who have gotten representation and broken into the TV or feature film space after the critical 2008 WGA strike and financial market collapse, the reader will learn from tangible examples of how success was achieved via hard work and specific methodology. The book explores information gathered from case studies, as well as writer s anecdotes...

Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters without sacrificing the quality and punch of their screenplays, whether they're creating a sizzle short for an unproduced feature script, an independent creative work, or a soapbox to promote a cause. Write to Shoot: Writing Short Films for Production is a must-have guide for anyone who wants to be sure there...

Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters without sacrificing the quality and punch of their screenplays, whether they're creating a sizzle short for an unproduced feature script, an independent creative work, or a soapbox to promote a cause. Write to Shoot: Writing Short Films for Production is a must-have guide for anyone who wants to be sure there...

Production Design: Visual Magic is a hands-on guide to the craft of production design and art direction, told from inside the craft by author Peg McClellan. You will learn the basics of the job responsibilities and the setup of the art department, and then delve into a day-to-day breakdown of the job itself from the hiring of your team, to set walk-throughs with the director and producers, to juggling script, location and actor changes, and everything in between. Case studies, interviews, and quotes from successful Production Designers fill out the practical instruction and...

Production Design: Visual Magic is a hands-on guide to the craft of production design and art direction, told from inside the craft by author Peg McClellan. You will learn the basics of the job responsibilities and the setup of the art department, and then delve into a day-to-day breakdown of the job itself from the hiring of your team, to set walk-throughs with the director and producers, to juggling script, location and actor changes, and everything in between. Case studies, interviews, and quotes from successful Production Designers fill out the practical instruction and...

Once you ve learned the basics of screenwriting, ideas for your next screenplay are everywhere; whether it comes from your favorite children s book, a news story that catches your imagination, or a chapter out of your life - if only you knew how to adapt it Using examples from Academy Award winning screenplays, Eric Williams explains real world screenwriting strategies for writing compelling adaptations. Williams illustrates new techniques including how to use the "Triangle of Knowledge" to create tension, how to differentiate between a Macro Genres and a Micro Genres, and how to use the...