The screenwriter's bible : a complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your script /
Trottier, David,
The screenwriter's bible : a complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your script / by David Trottier. - sixth edition. - Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, (c)2014. - xii, 442 pages ; 28 cm
Book I: How to Write a Screenplay: A Primer Book II: 7 Steps to a Stunning Script: A Workbook Book III: Proper Formatting Technique: A Style Guide Book IV: Writing and Revising Your Breakthrough Script: A Script Consultant's View Book V: How to Sell Your Script: A Marketing Plan
About this workbook -- Step 1: Summon your muse -- Step 2: Dream up your movie idea -- Step 3: Develop your core story -- Step 4: Create your movie people -- Step 5: "Step-out" your story -- Step 6: Write your first draft -- Step 7: Make the necessary revisions. First steps to selling your work -- 1. Protect your work -- 2. Prepare your script for market -- 3. Assemble your selling tools -- 4. Create your strategic marketing plan -- 5. Implement your plan -- How to find an agent -- Crafting the query -- How to pitch without striking out -- Synopses, one-sheets, treatments, and outlines -- How to sell your script without an agent -- Television markets -- Jump-start your career now! -- How to break into Hollywood when you live in Peoria -- A personal challenge. How stories work -- Situation, conflict, and resolution-the flow of the story -- The lowdown on high concept -- Story-layering, plot, and genre -- Ten keys to creating captivating characters -- Theme -- Dialogue, subtext, and exposition -- How to make a scene -- Suspense, comedy, and television. How to use this guide to craft a compelling and professional screenplay -- Sample script (with cross-reference codes) -- Formatting in a nutshell -- Overall screenplay appearance -- Scene headings (slug lines) -- Narrative description -- Dialogue -- How to format TV scripts -- Glossary of terms not discussed elsewhere. The spec script-your key to breaking in -- Key principles and exercises in revising scenes -- When to break formatting rules -- The first 10 pages.
"Among this book's wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The sixth edition is chock-full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets."--Back cover.
9781935247104
2013049186
GBB495166 bnb
016858009 Uk
Motion picture authorship.
Television authorship.
PN1996 / .S374 2014 PN1996
The screenwriter's bible : a complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your script / by David Trottier. - sixth edition. - Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, (c)2014. - xii, 442 pages ; 28 cm
Book I: How to Write a Screenplay: A Primer Book II: 7 Steps to a Stunning Script: A Workbook Book III: Proper Formatting Technique: A Style Guide Book IV: Writing and Revising Your Breakthrough Script: A Script Consultant's View Book V: How to Sell Your Script: A Marketing Plan
About this workbook -- Step 1: Summon your muse -- Step 2: Dream up your movie idea -- Step 3: Develop your core story -- Step 4: Create your movie people -- Step 5: "Step-out" your story -- Step 6: Write your first draft -- Step 7: Make the necessary revisions. First steps to selling your work -- 1. Protect your work -- 2. Prepare your script for market -- 3. Assemble your selling tools -- 4. Create your strategic marketing plan -- 5. Implement your plan -- How to find an agent -- Crafting the query -- How to pitch without striking out -- Synopses, one-sheets, treatments, and outlines -- How to sell your script without an agent -- Television markets -- Jump-start your career now! -- How to break into Hollywood when you live in Peoria -- A personal challenge. How stories work -- Situation, conflict, and resolution-the flow of the story -- The lowdown on high concept -- Story-layering, plot, and genre -- Ten keys to creating captivating characters -- Theme -- Dialogue, subtext, and exposition -- How to make a scene -- Suspense, comedy, and television. How to use this guide to craft a compelling and professional screenplay -- Sample script (with cross-reference codes) -- Formatting in a nutshell -- Overall screenplay appearance -- Scene headings (slug lines) -- Narrative description -- Dialogue -- How to format TV scripts -- Glossary of terms not discussed elsewhere. The spec script-your key to breaking in -- Key principles and exercises in revising scenes -- When to break formatting rules -- The first 10 pages.
"Among this book's wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The sixth edition is chock-full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets."--Back cover.
9781935247104
2013049186
GBB495166 bnb
016858009 Uk
Motion picture authorship.
Television authorship.
PN1996 / .S374 2014 PN1996