Break into Screenwriting: Teach Yourself

by RayFrensham (Author)

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  2010

  $3.60

  LEARN HOW TO BREAK INTO THE WORLD OF SCREENWRITING WITH THIS INDISPENSABLE GUIDE.

  A comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters
  Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole. Focusing on every aspect of screenwriting, from how to set about the writing process to how to develop your characters, plot and structure, this book will give you all the guidance you need to break into this highly competitive industry and make a career for yourself as a screenwriter.

  
  

  Break into Screenwriting includes:
  
  Chapter 1: Introduction
  Chapter 2: Screenplay layout: your visual language
  Chapter 3: Originating your ideas
  Chapter 4: Developing your ideas: from idea to framework
  Chapter 5: Creating your characters
  Chapter 6: Character goals, growth, motivation and conflict
  Chapter 7: Structure
  Chapter 8: Structural variations
  Chapter 9: 'Deep structure'
  Chapter 10: Enhancing emotion
  Chapter 11: The next step Chapter 12: The actual writing
  Chapter 13: The craft of the rewrite
  Chapter 14: The 'finished' item
  Chapter 15: Assembling your portfolio
  Chapter 16: Copyright
  Chapter 17: Agents

  ABOUT THE SERIES
  The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.39

  In this guide to screenwriting, Raymond Frensham draws on his experience to take the reader through the processes involved in transforming creative ideas into a format that will work on screen. He offers regular checklists on structuring work, concentrating on visual language, dialogue, characterization and plot; he then shows how to present and sell the finished product in a crowded marketplace.