Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Television - Screenwriting

Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the art and business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives and advice from industry insiders on topics such as breaking in; pitching; developing and nurturing business relationships; juggling multiple projects; strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of a screenwriting career; and more. Writing for the Screen is an ideal companion to screenwriting and filmmaking classes, bringing the expertise of working...

Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from industry insiders on topics such as breaking in; pitching; developing and nurturing business relationships; juggling multiple projects; and more. Writing for the Screen is an ideal companion to screenwriting and filmmaking classes, demystifying the industry and the role of the screenwriter with real-world narratives and little-known truths about the business. With insight from...

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer.

Including new material alongside revised, extended selections from Janet Neipris' original and much loved book To Be A Playwright, this volume takes the writer week-by-week up to a first draft and rewrite of a dramatic work.

Brand new chapters include:

• Beginnings
• Focus and Theme
• Comedy
• Writing for Television
• To Be A Dramatic Writer

Adding...

"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...

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...

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...

Close to the Enemy is a seven-part television series, mostly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The drama follows intelligence officer Captain Callum Ferguson whose last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, starts working for the British RAF on urgently developing the jet engine. With the background of the emerging Cold War, it is clear to all that it's crucial for British national security that cutting-edge technology is made available to the armed forces as quickly as possible. Callum uses...

Most movies include a love story, whether it is the central story or a subplot, and knowing how to write a believable relationship is essential to any writer's skill set. Discover the rules and laws of nature at play in a compelling love story and learn and master them. Broken into four sections, The Heart of the Film identifies the critical features of love story development, and explores every variation of this structure as well as a diverse array of relationships and types of love. Author Cynthia Whitcomb has sold over 70 feature-length screenplays and shares the keys to...

Most movies include a love story, whether it is the central story or a subplot, and knowing how to write a believable relationship is essential to any writer's skill set. Discover the rules and laws of nature at play in a compelling love story and learn and master them. Broken into four sections, The Heart of the Film identifies the critical features of love story development, and explores every variation of this structure as well as a diverse array of relationships and types of love. Author Cynthia Whitcomb has sold over 70 feature-length screenplays and shares the keys to...

Through the expanding influence of the Internet and the corporatization of both publishing and entertainment, the process of getting your book to the big screen has gotten more complicated, more eccentric, and more exciting.

This little book aims to help you figure out how to get your story told on big screens or small. It's not going to give you rules and regulations, because they simply don't exist today. Any rule that could be promulgated has and will be broken. What this book offers instead is nearly thirty years of observation of how things happen in show business, the...