- Paperback: 262 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Expanded Ed edition (Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440576474
- ISBN-13: 978-0440576471
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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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?
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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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Repetitive... but perhaps that's why it works.,
By Bodnotbod (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to finished Script (Paperback)
The main thing to say about this book is that it's repetitive. Really, really repetitive. Phenomenally repetitive. You think the start of this review is repetitive? No, my friend. Compared to the book, my review is not remotely repetitive.
Sentences are repeated. Quotes are repeated. Advice is repeated ad infinitum. The book has 308 pages without the index. I reckon you could boil that down to less than half the size if you just took out all the bits that are said more than once. You may find this hard to believe but there are things in here that are repeated more than four times. So why do I still give it four stars? Well, I think the repetition works. OK, it goes a little too far on that point. And there will be some readers (though none who can argue I haven't done my utmost to warn them) who get really worn down by the repetition. But for me, since this is only my second screenwriting book and I haven't been to any classes, I have probably benefited from the repetition. It really hammers its points home. If you don't remember the main points after being told again and again and again, then when will you learn them? So this book is like being taught by a teacher who doesn't trust you to remember the key points. He hits you over the head with them. Then again. Then again. And then one more time, just to be sure. In my case, it's probably a good thing that he does. For other people, though, it may be much too much.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All beginners must read!,
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This review is from: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to finished Script (Paperback)
Anyone interested in the art of screenwriting should read this book, preferrably before they start a script. I started mine beforehand and now I wish I'd had this first.Every aspect of your writing and your attitude towards what you will get out of writing will be improved with reading this book. Everything from structure (the famous paradigm) and your expectations of how to seel your script are covered. This book is so effortlessly written (at least it seems so) that reading it is very easy and you may well finish it in a few sittings. This guy is a master in his field and you can get a lot of expertise from him for a very small sum of money. BUY IT!!
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to read, great to learn!,
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This review is from: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Paperback)
I am almost finished with this book & it's an absolute find! I am studying screenwriting at the moment & found this book to be extremely helpful, both in & out of the class.Syd Field's style is so very easy to follow & his use of repetition is excellent in making everything stick firmly in your mind! I would suggest to anyone contemplating writing their own script to invest the time & money in this book. It will certainly help you achieve your goal...and maybe even your dream! Best of luck:-)
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