The Coffee Break Screenwriter by Pilar Alessandra
Got ten minutes? Write your screenplay. At last, leading Hollywood screenwriting instructor Pilar Alessandra shows everyone who's ever wanted to write a screenplay how to do it — without quitting their jobs or leaving their families. Packed with over sixty 10-minute writing tools, The Coffee Break Screenwriter keeps it focused and keeps it simple. Now, you can make real progress on your scripts with only ten minutes of stolen time.
The Coffee Break Screenwriter gives you guidance and tips at every stage of the often intimidating writing process with a relaxed, "ten minutes at a time" method that focuses your writing and pushes you forward. At each step, Pilar Alessandra encourages you to "Take Ten" and tackle an element of your scripts using the templates and tools provided. "What You've Accomplished" sections help you review your progress. And "Ten Minute Lectures" distill and demystify old-school theory, allowing you to unblock and keep writing.
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Your Screenplay Sucks! by William Akers
All beginning writers make the same mistakes — and many "pros" do, too! Because nobody in Hollywood will give your script a second chance, it better be perfect the first time out. No longer will you worry that a producer or story executive will toss your script in the garbage at page fifteen because Your Screenplay Sucks! With William M. Akers' checklist you will eliminate all the flaws in your screenplay, guaranteeing a cover-to-cover read.
Your Screenplay Sucks includes the most comprehensive checklist of fatal errors all writers make — and then provides the tools to fix them.
In today's highly competitive story market, this is the only book that finds the flaws in your script — like a heat-seeking missile — and shows you how to eliminate them.
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The Hollywood Standard by Christopher Riley
The key to getting a "green light" in Hollywood is a polished screenplay, which means that your script needs to be airtight before it hits the agency or production company story analyst's desk. The simple format rules found in The Hollywood Standard — which you can learn in an hour — come from Hollywood's top expert on script format and will guarantee that your script makes a winning first impression.
Thousands of promising scripts never get a fair read from Hollywood because their format is wrong. Poor formatting is the mark of an amateur and in the ultra-competitive world of screenwriting, the wrong first impression can kill your dreams. Your scriptwriting software offers you all these little screenwriting tools. This text gives you what even the best script software can't. A detailed study of proper script formatting, it goes beyond the software and tells you WHEN and WHY to use those tools.
Intended to be kept at a screenwriters fingertips, this new edition of The Hollywood Standard has been expanded and updated, and features easy-to-use, lay-flat binding. With clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples, this book takes the guesswork out of a multitude of formatting questions that perplex even seasoned screenwriters, waste their time, and steal their confidence.
Subtitled The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style, the contents of The Hollywood Standard include: when a new scene heading is appropriate and when it isn't; how to control pace with formatting; how to make a script page visually inviting to the reader; what to capitalize and why; how to get into and out of a POV shot; what can and can't be included in an establishing shot and much more.
The author is uniquely qualified to write about standard script format and style. For 14 years Christopher Riley worked in Warner Bros. acclaimed script processing department, eventually running the standard-setting operation. He wrote the studio's screenwriting software and served as the ultimate arbiter of screenplay format for Warner Bros. and dozens of outside clients that included Amblin, Disney, Columbia, Universal and Productions.
Simply put, Christopher Riley knows more about television and movie script format than anyone in Hollywood and shares it all with you. Buy this book. Learn the rules as if your career depends on it; because it does.
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Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need....
Blake Snyder made millions of dollars selling screenplays. In Save the Cat! one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business.
Save the Cat! is just one of many iron-clad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying and saleable, including: the four elements of every winning logline; the seven immutable laws of screenplay physics; the 10 genres that every movie ever made can be categorized by and why they're important to your script; why your hero must serve your idea; mastering the beats; creating the perfect beast by using… The Board; and how to get back on track with proven rules for script repair.
Save the Cat! is the ultimate insider's guide. It reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by showbiz veteran Blake Snyder, who proved that you can sell your script if you can Save the Cat!.
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