Screenwriting A Manual

Name: Screenwriting A Manual
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ISBN: 9780195508321

ISBN-10: 0195508327

ISBN-13: 9780195508321

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jonathan Dawson

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Covering all forms of screenwriting, this is a wide-ranging and accessbile guide to industry practices and principles. While providing a comprehensive and considered approach to presenting work, it allows for a great deal of creative freedom. With script extracts, original storyboards, and narrative ideas for multimedia, the book offers concrete examples of successful and expressive screenwriting within the described production formats. It also contains exercises for generating and shaping the various elements of a script, an appendix on copyright and other legal issues, and a glossary of terms.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.40" wide x 5.30" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Jonathan Dawson is a consultant specializing in small enterprise development



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Starting Out



Getting Ideas



How to Begin Your Script



Behind the Screens



Commercials, Corporates and Infotainment



The Documentary



Shorts, Soaps and Sitcoms



A Short Course in Comedy



The Pitch



Creating Characters



The Plot Thickens



Writing Series TV



Writing Feature Films and Television Movies



Children's Television and Film



Animation: Imaginary Lives



Scripting Multimedia



Legals



Video Games: A Very Short History



Gallipoli


Glossary


References


Recommended Reading


Index