"Screenwriting: Step by Step" is a user-friendly, basic introduction to successful screenwriting for the student and novice screenwriter.

The text covers twelve steps to good screenwriting. It teaches students how to choose a theme, establish a central conflict, and write a story that works as drama. The book is divided into two sections: “ First Steps, ” which teaches students the essentials of writing drama, and “ Next Steps, ” which teaches the essentials of writing drama expressly for film. The author's wealth of real-world experience is evident in the text's practical advice to beginning screenwriters.

Features

• Explains cinematic principles in clear, simple, conversational prose, helping to eliminate confusion for students and jumpstart their writing process.
• Includes a separate chapter on formatting so that students can write a script that is technically correct as well as artistically creative.
• Offers exercises at the end of each chapter that help students clarify and reinforce the fundamentals of writing for film.

• ISBN: 0205418295
• ISBN-13: 9780205418299
• Author : Wendy J. Henson
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 10/1/2004
• Publisher Imprint: Allyn & Bacon
• Price ($AUD): $94.95


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