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Screenplay [electronic resource] : the foundations of screenwriting / Syd Field.

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New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005.

Motion picture authorship.

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1 online resource (272 p.)

What is a screenplay? -- The subject. -- The creation of character. -- Building a character. -- Story and character. -- Endings and beginnings. -- Setting up the story. -- Two incidents. -- Plot points. -- The scene. -- The sequence. -- Building the story line. -- Screenplay form. -- Writing the screenplay. -- Adaptation. -- On collaboration. -- After it's written. -- A personal note.

From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script. Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed.-Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important' -How do you collaborate successfully with someone else' -How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay' -How do you market your script' From the Trade Paperback edition.

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