Selling Your Screenplay

Selling Your Screenplay
Author: Ashley Scott Meyers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Motion picture authorship
ISBN: 9781601451484

Selling Your Screenplay is a step-by-step guide to getting your screenplay sold and produced. Learn how to get your script into the hands of the producers and directors who can turn your story into a movie.

Love Actually

Love Actually
Author: Richard Curtis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-12-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780312318499

The hilarious new screenplay from the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"is coming to the big screen in November 2003.

Hope for Film

Hope for Film
Author: Ted Hope
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1640093508

“Essential for the aspiring filmmaker,” this is an inspiring, tell-all look at the independent film business from one of the industry’s most passionate supporters (Todd Solondz, director of Welcome to the Dollhouse) Hope for Film captures the rebellious punk spirit of the indie film boom in 1990s New York City and its collapse two decades later to its technology-fueled regeneration and continuing streaming-based evolution. Ted Hope, whose films have garnered 12 Oscar nominations, draws from his own personal experiences working on the early films of Ang Lee, Eddie Burns, Alan Ball, Todd Field, Hal Hartley, Michel Gondry, Nicole Holofcener, and Todd Solondz, as well as his tenures at the San Francisco Film Society, Fandor, and Amazon Studios, taking readers through the decision-making process that brought him the occasional failure as well as much success. Whether navigating negotiations with studio executives over final cuts or clashing with high-powered CAA agents over their clients, Hope offers behind-the-scenes stories from the wild and often heated world of “specialized” cinema--where art and commerce collide. As mediator between these two opposing interests, Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself. Against a backdrop of seismic changes in the independent film industry, from corporate co-option to the rise of social media and the streaming giants, Hope for Film provides not only an entertaining and intimate ride through the business of arthouse movies over the last decades, but also hope for its future. “There is nobody in the independent film world quite like Ted Hope. His wisdom and heart shine through every page.” —Ang Lee, Academy Award winning director of Brokeback Mountain

Inception

Inception
Author: Christopher Nolan
Publisher: Insight Editions
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-08-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1608870154

A man, highly skilled in entering people's dreams to extract secret information, is offered a chance to implant an idea in another man's head, a practice known as inception.

Writing Short Films

Writing Short Films
Author: Linda J. Cowgill
Publisher: Lone Eagle
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-10-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307875148

This new edition has been completely updated and revised along with the addition of several new chapters. Currently, this title remains the best selling university text book on writing short film screenplays.

What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay

What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay
Author: Peter Markham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000173895

A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director’s craft. Drawing on seventeen years of teaching filmmaking at a graduate level and on his prior career as a director and in production at the BBC, Markham shows how the filmmaker can apply rigorous analysis of the elements of dramatic narrative in a screenplay to their creative vision, whether of a short or feature, TV episode or season. Combining examination of such fundamental topics as story, premise, theme, genre, world and setting, tone, structure, and key images with the introduction of less familiar concepts such as cultural, social, and moral canvas, narrative point of view, and the journey of the audience, What’s The Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay applies the insights of each chapter to a case study—the screenplay of the short film Contrapelo, nominated for the Jury Award at Tribeca in 2014. This book is an essential resource for any aspiring director who wants to understand exactly how to approach a screenplay in order to get the very best from it, and an invaluable resource for any filmmaker who wants to understand the important creative interplay between the director and screenplay in bringing a story to life.

Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media

Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media
Author: Alan C. Hueth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0429866488

What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media answers these questions and more, offering a comprehensive introduction to writing scripts for film, television, the Internet, and interactive multimedia. Author Alan C. Hueth explains not just how to write, but how to think and apply the fundamental principles of screenwriting to multiple platforms and genres. This includes chapters on numerous script formats, including drama and comedy in film and TV, short films, commercials and PSAs, news and sports, interview shows, documentaries, reality shows, and corporate and educational media, including interactive multimedia. This book also addresses legal and ethical issues, how to become a professional scriptwriter, and a section on production language that provides helpful explanations of how camera, locations, visual and audio effects combine on screen to engage and sustain viewer attention, and, consequently, how to improve scriptwriting technique. The book features numerous case studies and detailed examples, including chapter by chapter exercises, plot diagrams, quick-look and learn tables that assist readers to quickly understand genre related script elements, and in-depth script close-ups to examine precisely how writers utilize the principles and elements of drama to create a successful script. It is also supported by a comprehensive companion website with further case studies, assignments, video clips, and examples of films and programs discussed in the book. Scriptwriting for Film, Television, and New Media is ideal for aspiring scriptwriters and anyone wanting to broaden their understanding of how successful scripts are created.

Downton Abbey Script Book Season 1

Downton Abbey Script Book Season 1
Author: Julian Fellowes
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0062238329

The most successful British television drama of our time, the multi-award-winning Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon in the U.S. as well. Created by Julian Fellowes—who received an Academy Award for his screenplay for the acclaimed Robert Altman motion picture, Gosford Park—Downton Abbey features stellar performances, ravishing sets and costumes, and, most importantly, absolutely riveting plots. Now the scripts for the entire first season have been collected in one volume, along with never before seen material, incisive commentary, and color photos that will completely immerse fans in the world of Downton Abbey.

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
Author: Thomas Lennon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439186766

"A hilarious and helpful insider's guide to launching a successful writing career in Hollywood. . . . The only compass readers will ever need to navigate the treacherous waters of filmmaking"--("Kirkus Reviews," starred review).

How to Write the Best Novel, Story, Film Script, Textbook, Web Content' - Master the Art of Exceptional Writing for Various Genres and Platforms

How to Write the Best Novel, Story, Film Script, Textbook, Web Content' - Master the Art of Exceptional Writing for Various Genres and Platforms
Author: Dr Ishwarbhai Joshi
Publisher: Ideaz Overseas
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

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