Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Film - Screenwriting

Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.

Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed.

Chapters explore areas including:

• Screenwriting histories and myths of the profession
• Screenwriting as creative labor
• Screenwriters' working lives
• Screenwriting work...

Develop the tools you will need to succeed before, during, and after your film school education.

Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision is a specific, straightforward guide to applying, getting into, and thriving in film school and in the industry in general. Not only does this book appeal to both prospective and current film students, it also features an in depth discussion of the application process, both from the graduate and undergraduate perspectives. You will learn how to choose between different schools and programs, avoid debt, succeed at...

Develop the tools you will need to succeed before, during, and after your film school education.

Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision is a specific, straightforward guide to applying, getting into, and thriving in film school and in the industry in general. Not only does this book appeal to both prospective and current film students, it also features an in depth discussion of the application process, both from the graduate and undergraduate perspectives. You will learn how to choose between different schools and programs, avoid debt, succeed at...

The first collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose film credits include the screenplays for The Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and the upcoming Sufragette. This book includes six of Morgan's acclaimed early plays: Skinned, Tiny Dynamite, Splendour, Tender, Lovesong, and 27.

Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he s chronicled his adventures in the pages of "American Cinematographer," "Digital Video," "Videography," and "TV Technology." Now, in "Behind the Lens: Dispatches from the Cinematic Trenches," he s compiled nearly 100 of his best articles on everything from camera technology and lenses to tips and techniques for better lighting. Whether you re making independent films, commercials, music videos, documentaries, television shows, event videos, or industrials, this full color...

Filmmaker Jay Holben has been battling in the production trenches for most of his life. For the past 17 years, he's chronicled his adventures in the pages of American Cinematographer, Digital Video, Videography, and TV Technology. Now, in Behind the Lens: Dispatches from the Cinematic Trenches, he's compiled nearly 100 of his best articles on everything from camera technology and lenses to tips and techniques for better lighting. Whether you're making independent films, commercials, music videos, documentaries, television shows, event videos, or...

Indie Film Producing explains the simple, basic, clear cut role of the independent film producer. Raising funds to do your dream project, producing award-winning films with a low budget, putting name actors on your indie film-it's all doable, and this book guides you through the entire process of being a successful producer with bonus tips on how to effortlessly maneuver through the sphere of social media marketing and fundraising tactics.

Indie film producer Suzanne Lyons pilots you through the actual making of low budget films to show you how easy and...

The Step-By-Step Course That Shows You How to Write Your Screenplay in Just 10 Days
"If you want to write screenplays for a living, there is nothing more valuable for a writer than being able to produce a quality screenplay quickly. We created this course to give you all the tools you need to accomplish exactly that. Our promise is simple: follow this system and in 10 days, you'll have a powerful script finished " - Travis Donnelly, writer, Medium and Hawaii Five-O
Some of the most famous movies in history were written in 10 days or less.
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Professional Actor/Writer Jack Forbes offers us front-row seats in an enticing array of myriad characters and compelling plot twists. Jack takes us from Big League baseball coach, to homicide detective, murder suspect, rape victims, criminal defense attorneys, private investigator, sketchy eye-witness, clever industrial spy, hapless executive, fighter pilot, female infantry prisoner, mob enforcer, edgy thief, schizophrenic, empathetic clerk, Witness Protection hit man, FBI Special Agent, and more. So perhaps you're an actor wanting to jump into these scenes feet-first, or simply a...

A sharp, funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent as in "this century" movies you've actually seen as examples.

Greg DePaul (Screenwriter, "Bride Wars," "Saving Silverman") has sold scripts to Miramax, Fox, Disney, New Line, Sony, MGM and Village Roadshow. He's worked with comedy stars like Jack Black, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Amanda Peet.

Now Greg takes everything he knows about writing comedy and breaking into the biz, tosses it into a blender and serves up this tasty, fat-free smoothie of a book that s easy to read, brutally honest,...

She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life.

Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university professor, caught in an unhappy marriage, and they start a relationship. Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his wife, the domineering Danish critical theorist Georgette Norgaard (Julianne Moore).

The film moves forward three years and the couple have married and settled down with a daughter together....