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Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing
Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing
Product Description
This book provides writers with the tools necessary to write and market a successful screenplay.
Hicks says: ‘Having a great idea is not enough. You need to get it down on the page. Having a great script is not enough. You have to pitch it to the right person at the right moment in time!’
Elements include:
* Structure
* Characters
* Style
* The business of screenwriting
* The economics of film
* Agents, attorneys and the screenwriter
and much more!
Hicks’ credits include two of the number one box office films in the world – Rumble in the Bronx in the United States and First Strike in Asia. Some of his other Hollywood screenwriting credits include the critically acclaimed Dead Reckoning, starring Cliff Robertson, and Pierce Brosnan’s Don’t Talk to Strangers.
KEY FEATURES:
* An essential guide to screenwriting
* Reveals the tricks of the trade
* Written by an acclaimed scriptwriter
Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing
Oscar-Winning Screenwriters on Screenwriting: The Award-Winning Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft
Product Description
Hollywood’s most respected screenwriters tell intriguing and instructive tales of their successes, failures, aspirations and inspirations in the movie business.
Academy Award-winning movies such as American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, and Forrest Gump are remembered, long after Oscar® night, for their stellar performances, their breathtaking beauty, and their transcendent scenes. But before any of these films were directed, lit, performed, or edited, they needed to be written. Screenwriting is, arguably, the most important and underrated role in Hollywood.
Now Joel Engel brings together interviews with the best screenwriters working today, each of whom has won an Academy Award for his or her work, and each of whom shares a wealth of knowledge, insight, and experience about this little understood facet of moviemaking. In each essay, writers such as Alan Ball (American Beauty), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Marc Norman (Shakespeare in Love), Tom Schulman (Dead Poet’s Society), Kurt Luedtke (Out of Africa), John Irving (The Cider House Rules), and many others explore and explain their craft and technique. Anyone interested in writing, making, or learning about movies will enjoy this behind-the-scenes compilation of wisdom and advice from Hollywood’s natural-born storytellers. Amazon.com Review
All film jobs, says Joel Engel, “depend on the script.” It remains a mystery, then, that so many in the film biz consider a script to be “little more than typing.” Strangely enough, everyone, it seems, wants to be a screenwriter. In Screenwriters on Screenwriting, Engel has shaped interviews with 11 Oscar-winning screenwriters into chapterlong monologues. These writers provide companionship for the aspiring screenwriter, but their tales should appeal equally to any film lover interested in the stories behind the stories. William Goldman (All the President’s Men) laments the current state of cinematic storytelling; Ron Bass describes how My Best Friend’s Wedding and Rain Man evolved; Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) talks about completely revamping his work process after giving up drugs and alcohol. And Marc Norman (Shakespeare in Love) claims that his best writing “has been on the scripts I wrote as suicide notes to the industry–sort of, ‘F— you, guys, I’m outta here. This is the last script you’ll ever get from me.’” –Jane Steinberg
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
- ISBN13: 9780312119089
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.
Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including Citizen Cane, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rashomon, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Chinatown, and sex, lies, and videotape.
Amazon.com Review
A comprehensive guide to writing screenplays by an experienced screenwriter and a respected writing teacher. Along with sections on the sreenwriter’s craft, basic storytelling, and the parts and objectives of a screenplay, the book is distinguished by detailed analyses of sixteen successful films’ screenplays, including the likes of E.T., Some Like It Hot, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, and Annie Hall.
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer’s Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Product Description
Large (8 1/2″ x 11″) Softcover with 267 pages. Filled with lots of b/w and colored photos and illustrations. – This book is the professional “bible” of the new era in filmmaking. This book details the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of preproduction, production, and postproduction within a digital filmmaking environment. Readers will understand not only what new digital methods and techniques are redefining the filmmaking process, but also how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings.
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
- ISBN13: 9780240804279
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production within a digital filmmaking environment. It examines the new digital methods and techniques that are redefining the filmmaking process, and how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings. The second edition includes updates and new information, including four new chapters that examine key topics like digital television and high definition television,making films using digital video, 24 P and universal mastering, and digital film projection.
Digital Filmmaking provides a clear overview of the traditional filmmaking process, then goes on to illuminate the ways in which new methods can accomplish old tasks. It explains vital concepts, including digitization, compression, digital compositing, nonlinear editing, and on-set digital production and relates traditional film production and editing processes to those of digital techniques. Various filmmakers discuss their use of digital techniques to enhance the creative process in the “Industry Viewpoints” sections in each chapter .
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures