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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback - 1984

by Syd Field


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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?

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What is a screenplay?

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  • Title Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
  • Author Syd Field
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rei Expnd
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dell Publishing Company, New York
  • Date June 10, 1984
  • ISBN 9780440576471 / 0440576474
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.46 x 0.61 in (20.37 x 13.87 x 1.55 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture authorship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000570
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.23
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