Screenplay
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One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats.
*Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.
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A wonderful, and wonderfully practical, guide to the mechanics of writing a screenplay.
A friend of mine recommended this book to me a few years ago. She writes screenplays - I have no interest in writing screenplays. I am now taking a creative writing class and after being workshopped a couple weeks ago, realized I am terrible at establishing a plot and action. I ordered a copy of this after my friend told me, again, that I needed to read it, and am so glad I did. It's a great read, has completely changed how I watch movies and will hopefully make me better at inventing plot lines.
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