Break Into Screenwriting
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Previously published as : Teach yourself screenwriting, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Foreword / Andrew Davies -- Introduction -- Screenplay layout: your visual language -- Originating your ideas -- Developing your ideas: from idea to framework -- Creating your characters -- Character goals, growth, motivation and conflict -- Structure -- Structural variations -- "Deep structure" -- Enhancing emotion -- The next step -- The actual writing -- The craft of the rewrite -- The "finished" item -- Assembling your portfolio -- Copyright -- Agents -- Adaptations, shorts, soaps, series, sitcoms and collaboration -- The industry: how it works and your place in it -- Your career as a writer -- Final comments -- Screenwriting and the Internet -- Taking it further.
Frensham guides you through the skills and techniques you need to write for the screen, and helps you to navigate this competitive industry. Learn how to get your break and make a career for yourself as a screenwriter.
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Teach yourself.
PUBLISHED
[Blacklick, OH] : McGraw-Hill, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: x, 326 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780071740050
0071740058
SUBJECTS
Motion picture authorship.
Television authorship.
Motion picture plays -- Technique.
Television plays -- Technique.
Authorship.