Editorial Reviews
Product Description:Includes all the essentials for writing a screenplay, from crafting dialogue to marketing a script
Packed with easy-to-understand guidelines and writing projects,
Screenwriting For Dummies makes film writing accessible to novices and helps more experienced writers improve their scripts. This engaging guide walks readers through the essential elements of every good screenplay, from character development, to creating a story, to writing compelling dialogue, to adopting a screenplay from a different source. It also includes all the specific formatting details that go into writing a visual screenplay from scripting character introductions, to writing the camera into the script, to creating a cinematic collage. In addition,
Screenwriting For Dummies covers the important task of selling a screenplay, including tips for getting a spec script into the proper marketing format, protecting intellectual property rights, and securing an agent.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
An Excellent Introduction, October 17, 2008
By
SKI (WG FL USA)
For those who have little idea of where to start in writting a screen play, this book will get you on the right track. It was worth the money and is helping me think about all the details that a project can enclude.
A good start but not the only resource, August 30, 2008
By
E. S. (MD)
I have never written a script before so the "For Dummies" title, I thought, applied to me. However, as much as the book offers a lot on formulating a story, I was looking more for actual tips on structure and acceptable formatting of the physical script. There is very little of that in this book. The majority of the book deals with how to come up with a character, conflict, plot and all the other components of a story (something that I already have). If you are in the same boat as me, I suggest Christopher Keane's book, How to Write a Selling Screenplay.
Screenwriting for Dummies, May 31, 2008
By
Charles A. Reap Jr. (Pittsboro, NC USA)
This is a nice book to offer up important information if you have some silly desire to try to write a screenplay. It gives you plenty of basic information concerning proper formatting and how to deal with your ideas.
Although it doesn't write it for you, if you happen to be serious about joining the (probably) millions that are trying to break into the business, it's a good start.
Charles A. Reap, Jr., author of "Devil's Game," and "My Friend Sam."
Great, May 15, 2008
By
M. berryman (Australia)
This book is great would recommend it to any one interested in writing for film or tv. adios
hodgepodge, April 1, 2008
By
Michael N. Burns (Wisconsin USA)
A disjointed reference book made by an educated person. Lots of general advice that has no flow. 30/60/30. blah blah.
