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9781879505131

Screen-Writing Tricks of the Trade

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    9781879505131

  • ISBN10:

    1879505134

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-10-01
  • Publisher: Silman-James Pr
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Summary

Unlocks the mysteries of commercially successful screen drama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
Jeffrey Boam
Preface xvii
Introduction 1(12)
Thinking About The Script
13(70)
Story
17(9)
Action and Counter-Action
26(8)
What Is It?
34(5)
Character
39(17)
Making a Scene
56(4)
Plotting
60(14)
What It's About
74(9)
Writing The Script
83(46)
Page One
88(7)
The Beginning
95(6)
The Middle
101(9)
The End
110(7)
Talking About It
117(7)
Readability
124(5)
Selling The Script
129(28)
How to Get an Agent
131(8)
How to Keep Your Agent Working For You
139(3)
TV or Not TV
142(4)
Odds and Ends
146(3)
Digging Deeper
149(2)
Getting Going
151(6)
Afterword 157

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