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Book Synopsis How to Sell a Screenplay in the 21st Century by : Michael Rogan
Download or read book How to Sell a Screenplay in the 21st Century written by Michael Rogan and published by ScriptBully. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover How to Get Your Screenplay Read (and Eventually Sold!)Want to sell a screenplay, but have no idea how to make it happen?Want to get your script in the hands of Hollywood -- even if you live in Podunk Falls, Idaho?Have a killer screenplay in your drawer but no frickin' idea how to get people to read it? (Or whether you should send a query letter, direct email, carrier pigeon, etc?)Fear not, screenwriter! Because in In "Selling a Screenplay in the 21st Century," former screenplay reader and optioned screenwriter, Michael Rogan, shows you: ¿How to Conquer Hollywood From 3000 Miles Away ¿The Tools You Need to Find Out Who Can Read Your Script ¿How to Know if Your Script is Ready for Prime-Time¿and How to Make it ¿How to Write a Query That Doesn't Suck ¿Who You Should Contact in the Business to Read Your Script ¿How to Call Agencies and Production Companies Without Sounding Like a Total Moron ¿and so much more!And each chapter includes easy-to-follow action steps to help you boost your screenwriting IQ - without taking a single $2,000 seminar. You CAN get your script read (and possibly) sold! I've done it, and so can you. So, why not begin your quest to world-class screenwriting awesomeness...today!
Book Synopsis Selling a Screenplay in the 21st Century by : Michael Rogan
Download or read book Selling a Screenplay in the 21st Century written by Michael Rogan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover How to Get Your Screenplay Read (and Eventually Sold!)Want to sell a screenplay, but have no idea how to make it happen?Want to get your script in the hands of Hollywood -- even if you live in Podunk Falls, Idaho?Have a killer screenplay in your drawer but no frickin' idea how to get people to read it? (Or whether you should send a query letter, direct email, carrier pigeon, etc?)Fear not, screenwriter! Because in In "Selling a Screenplay in the 21st Century," former screenplay reader and optioned screenwriter, Michael Rogan, shows you: * How to Conquer Hollywood From 3000 Miles Away * The Tools You Need to Find Out Who Can Read Your Script * How to Know if Your Script is Ready for Prime-Time...and How to Make it * How to Write a Query That Doesn't Suck * Who You Should Contact in the Business to Read Your Script * How to Call Agencies and Production Companies Without Sounding Like a Total Moron ...and so much more!And each chapter includes easy-to-follow action steps to help you boost your screenwriting IQ - without taking a single $2,000 seminar. You CAN get your script read (and possibly) sold! I've done it, and so can you. So, why not begin your quest to world-class screenwriting awesomeness...today!
Book Synopsis Screenwriting for the 21st Century by : Pat Silver-Lasky
Download or read book Screenwriting for the 21st Century written by Pat Silver-Lasky and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've got the talent, here are the screenwriting techniques. Learn all the basics--and way beyond--of writing for film and television. Pat Silver-Lasky, who has worked in the business for more than 20 years and taught screenwriting at universities, reveals all the secrets of creating a film script that could become an international blockbuster. From organizing the plot to selling the final product, this unique guide discusses: * The elements of a screenplay, constructing a scene, and character vs. characterization * How comedies translate in the international market * Adapting a novel for film * Ways to work with a formula without being formulaic * Procedures for getting a script accepted, both in Hollywood and in the UK * Marketing and the international marketplace of the 21st century, including how to protect your material. It could be the key to a screenwriting Oscar.
Book Synopsis The 21st Century Screenplay by : Linda Aronson
Download or read book The 21st Century Screenplay written by Linda Aronson and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 2010 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 21ST-CENTURY SCREENPLAY is the long-awaited, much-expanded successor to the author's internationally acclaimed SCRIPTWRITING UPDATED. Many books in one, it offers a comprehensive, highly practical manual of screenwriting from the classic to the avant-garde, from The African Queen and Tootsie, to 21 Grams, Pulp Fiction, Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Whether you want to write short films, features, adaptations, genre films, ensemble films, blockbusters or art house movies, this book takes you all the way from choosing the brilliant idea to plotting, writing and rewriting. Featuring a range of insider survival tips on time-effective writing, creativity under pressure and rising to the challenge of international competition, THE 21ST-CENTURY SCREENPLAY is essential reading for newcomer and veteran alike. 'A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.' - Dr Linda Seger, author of Making a Good Script Great. 'A VERY WONDERFUL book. I love the strategies for plumbing the unconscious story mind. There's no other book that gives such an in-depth analysis of the bone structure for all these various kinds of narratives.' - Robin Swicord, Little Women, The Jane Austen Book Club, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Scriptwriting by : J. Michael Straczynski
Download or read book The Complete Book of Scriptwriting written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survive and thrive in the fantasyland that is show business, you need to know the realities of writing and selling. J. Michael Straczynski learned these realities the hard way. With his help, you'll learn them the easy way. Here the writer/producer of Murder, She Wrote and creator of Babylon 5 tells you how it really is - and how you can really succeed writing scripts. Straczynski shows you the importance of distinguishing yourself, through professionalism and discipline, from the wannabes. He helps you strengthen your writing technique while urging you to bring your own vision to your work, avoid formula, and create from passion. And he takes you in for a close look at every entertainment medium hungry for good scriptwriters.
Download or read book Selling a Screenplay written by Syd Field and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Breaks Down the Business of Screenwriting - Explains What the Buyer Looks For - Shows You What to Do to Get in the Door - Tackles the Pitching Process - Provides Personal Insights from Famous Screenwriters Everybody has a story to tell. Everybody wants to write the great American screenplay. But what do you do after it’s written? How do you sell it? Studio honchos. Development Executives. Independent Producers. What do they want? Do you need an agent or manager to get it into production? Selling a screenplay can mean earning $250,000 or more, so competition is fierce. Syd Field gives you an insider’s look at the movie and TV industry, packed with essential tips from the pros. Selling a Screenplay is a must-have guide for every screenwriter, filled with frank real-life advice from Hollywood’s most powerful deal makers and most celebrated screenwriters. They all started somewhere.
Book Synopsis How to Sell Your Screenplay by : Lydia Wilen
Download or read book How to Sell Your Screenplay written by Lydia Wilen and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s topsy-turvy world of film production, getting a screenplay sold and produced is no easy task. How to Sell Your Screenplay not only lets you in on the rules, but also lets you in on the secrets of winning the game. Written by two veteran screenwriters, this book is a complete guide to getting your screenplay seen, read, and sold. It begins with an insider’s look at how the business works. Later chapters guide you in putting your script into the proper format to make a professional first impression, introduce you to the roles of the industry “players,” help you prepare a perfect pitch, and provide you with a proven system for query submission. Throughout, tips from experts will show you how to swim with the sharks without getting eaten by them.
Book Synopsis 33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay! by : Hal Croasmun
Download or read book 33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay! written by Hal Croasmun and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you want to get your script into producers, agents, and managers, you need strategies that work. This book will provide you with the strategies and operate as a checklist as you plan your campaign" --
Book Synopsis 21st Century Screenplay by : Linda Aronson
Download or read book 21st Century Screenplay written by Linda Aronson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly comprehensive overview of the craft of writing for contemporary film and video, by a multi-award winning screenwriter.
Book Synopsis Crafty Screenwriting by : Alex Epstein
Download or read book Crafty Screenwriting written by Alex Epstein and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made. Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not only to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the trade, but to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that the "dialogue is flat," or "the hero isn't likeable." Fresh, provocative, and funny, Alex Epstein diagnoses problem that other screenwriting books barely address, and answers questions they rarely ask, like "Why is it sometimes dangerous to know your characters too well before you start writing," or "Why does your script have to be so much better than the awful pictures that get made every day?" As a development executive who has accepted and rejected countless screenplays, and a produced screenwriter himself, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most important question of all: "Is this a movie?" A crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes to get their movie made.
Book Synopsis How to Write a Selling Screenplay by : Christopher Keane
Download or read book How to Write a Selling Screenplay written by Christopher Keane and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Keane has spent 20 years in the business, learning the truths--and the tricks--of writing a selling screenplay. In How to Write a Selling Screenplay, he takes writers through the entire process, from developing a story to finding the best agent. Using an annotated version of an often-optioned screenplay of his own, and citing examples from movies ranging from Casablanca and Lethal Weapon to Sling Blade and The English Patient, he discusses how to create three-dimensional characters, find a compelling story, build an airtight plot structure, fine-tune dialogue, and much more. Keane's tips on the difference between writing for film and television, as well as his advice on dealing with Hollywood movers and shakers, make this an essential companion for people writing their first--or their fortieth--screenplay. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis The Writer's Guide to Writing Your Screenplay by : Cynthia Whitcomb
Download or read book The Writer's Guide to Writing Your Screenplay written by Cynthia Whitcomb and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential writer's guide, a professional screen-writer shares her know-how on the elements of writing for the screen, from the basics of character development and creating the structure to resolving problems and revising in only three drafts.
Book Synopsis The Savvy Screenwriter by : Susan Kouguell
Download or read book The Savvy Screenwriter written by Susan Kouguell and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savvy Screenwriter demystifies the film industry and reveals what aspiring screenwriters really want and need to know. From finding and working with agents, to insights about story analysts and movie executives, to understanding option agreements, to providing samples for queries, synopses, treatments, loglines, and outlines, to pitching, Susan Kouguell knows what works and what doesn't, and gives practical advice on getting your screenplay sold.
Book Synopsis Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Fourth Edition by : Alan Rosenthal
Download or read book Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, Fourth Edition written by Alan Rosenthal and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Alan Rosenthal states in the preface to this new edition of his acclaimed resource for filmmakers, Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos is “a book about storytelling—how to tell great and moving stories about fascinating people, whether they be villains or heroes.” In response to technological advances and the growth of the documentary hybrid in the past five years, Rosenthal reconsiders how one approaches documentary filmmaking in the twenty-first century. Simply and clearly, he explains how to tackle day-to-day problems, from initial concept through distribution. He demonstrates his ideas throughout the book with examples from key filmmakers’ work. New aspects of this fourth edition include a vital new chapter titled "Making Your First Film," and a considerable enlargement of the section for producers, "Staying Alive," which includes an extensive discussion of financing, marketing, festivals, and distribution. This new edition offers a revised chapter on nonlinear editing, more examples of precise and exacting proposals, and the addition of a complex budget example with explanation of the budgeting process. Discussion of documentary hybrids, with suggestions for mastering changes and challenges, has also been expanded, while the “Family Films” chapter includes updated information that addresses rapid expansion in this genre.
Download or read book The Secrets of Story written by Matt Bird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've just boarded a plane. You've loaded your phone with your favorite podcasts, but before you can pop in your earbuds, disaster strikes: The guy in the next seat starts telling you all about something crazy that happened to him--in great detail. This is the unwelcome storyteller, trying to convince a reluctant audience to care about his story. We all hate that guy, right? But when you tell a story (any kind of story: a novel, a memoir, a screenplay, a stage play, a comic, or even a cover letter), you become the unwelcome storyteller. So how can you write a story that audiences will embrace? The answer is simple: Remember what it feels like to be that jaded audience. Tell the story that would win you over, even if you didn't want to hear it. The Secrets of Story provides comprehensive, audience-focused strategies for becoming a master storyteller. Armed with the Ultimate Story Checklist, you can improve every aspect of your fiction writing with incisive questions like these: • Concept: Is the one-sentence description of your story uniquely appealing? • Character: Can your audience identify with your hero? • Structure and Plot: Is your story ruled by human nature? • Scene Work: Does each scene advance the plot and reveal character through emotional reactions? • Dialogue: Is your characters' dialogue infused with distinct personality traits and speech patterns based on their lives and backgrounds? • Tone: Are you subtly setting, resetting, and upsetting expectations? • Theme: Are you using multiple ironies throughout the story to create meaning? To succeed in the world of fiction and film, you have to work on every aspect of your craft and satisfy your audience. Do both--and so much more--with The Secrets of Story.
Book Synopsis Understanding Screenwriting by : Tom Stempel
Download or read book Understanding Screenwriting written by Tom Stempel and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book My Movie Business written by John Irving and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen--for four different directors. Mr. Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, into a movie; about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire; about his slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production. Not least, and in addition to its qualities as a memoir--anecdotal, comic, affectionate, and candid--My Movie Business is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. The photographs in My Movie Business were taken by Stephen Vaughan, the still photographer on the set of The Cider House Rules--a Miramax production directed by Lasse Hallström, with Michael Caine in the role of Dr. Larch. Concurrently with the November 1999 release of the film, Talk Miramax Books will publish John Irving's screenplay.
