Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

How to Be a Professional Story Analyst for Film and Television

The entertainment industry's executives are always looking for a great story, but, because they don't have time to read every screenplay that crosses their desk, they rely on story analysts, or readers, who read and pass judgment on submissions. Here is how to get a reader's job and do it well.

Reading for a Living

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

This book offers a clear and straightforward framework upon which to build story plots. Replete with hundreds of film references and a step-by step breakdown of some of the greatest movies ever written, this is an inspiring and must-own manual for any serious modern day storyteller. Standing on the broad shoulders of Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, and others who have demonstrated how mythology is used, Walker brings passion, insight and clarity to a whole new range of story traditions never before examined. The book is helpful as both a reference source and as a springboard for the aspiring screenwriter. Whereas most screenwriting books focus on the over used three-act structure, the author offers a wide variety of alternative principles, and techniques that are much more flexible, adaptable and relevant for the modern storyteller.

Power Screenwriting: The 12 Steps of Story Development by Michael Chase Walker

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The Technique of Screen and Television Writing by Eugene Vale (1986)

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Georgia

The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking

Interviews screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, production designers, editors, and composers to give an overall impression of how a film is made

From Script to Screen

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New York

Your Short Film from Concept to Production

With the growth of film festivals, cable networks, specialty home video, and the Internet, there are more outlets and opportunities for screening short films now than at any time in the last 100 years. But before you can screen your short film, you need to shoot it. And before you can shoot it, you need to write it. The Short Screenplay provides both beginning and experienced screenwriters with all the guidance they need to write compelling, filmable short screenplays. Explore how to develop characters that an audience can identify with. How to create a narrative structure that fits a short time frame but still engages the audience. How to write dialogue that's concise and memorable. How to develop story ideas from concept through final draft. All this and much more is covered in a unique conversational style that reads more like a novel than a "how-to" book. The book wraps up with a discussion of the role of the screenplay in the production process and with some helpful (and entertaining) sample scripts. This is the only guide you'll ever need to make your short film a reality!

The Short Screenplay

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Great for college students looking to major in screenwriting or film! In great condition #paperback #reference #filmstudies #screenwriting 

The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script. Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides the would-be screenwriter through the writing of a movie. It answers such questions as: How to clarify the idea you don't quite have yet How to tell if your idea is really a movie How to move from what you want to say saying it How to stop getting ready and start Once you know what to write, the Inner Movie Method will show you how to write it. It also addresses such issues as: How to pay the rent while paying your dues What to say to your spouse when you can't come to bed How to keep going when you think you can't For accomplished screenwriters honing their craft, as well as those who never before brought their ideas to paper, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is an indispensable guide. And Viki King's upbeat, friendly style is like having a first-rate writing partner every step of the way.

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Tennessee

Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

This book provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. The author shows the correct formats for both screenplays and teleplays, and takes the writer through the writing and marketing process.

The Screenwriter's Bible

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Oklahoma

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.

Screenwriting for Dummies®

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Hollywood's million-dollar spec script market

The Big Deal

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Massachusetts

A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

The "Screenwriter's Bible" is one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold 150,000 copies in its ten-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover -- six books in one! Features: How to Write a Screenplay -- a concise course on screenwriting basics; Correct Format for Screenplays and Teleplays -- a style guide to the latest in industry-accepted formats; Steps to a Stunning Script -- a step-by-step guide to the screenwriting process from nascent idea through revisions; Writing Your Breakthrough Spec Script -- the keys to a marketable script; How to Sell Your Script -- marketing and sales strategies and information about today's marketplaces; Resources -- lists of industry contacts and useful screenwriting tools and services. This new edition offers expanded coverage of dialogue writing and character development, the latest in proper screenplay format, a new section on jumpstarting your career, new advice on creating and delivering pitches, more new successful writing tips and pointers, new and revised writing exercises, updated film examples, and an expanded index.

The 20th anniversary edition of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 250,000 copies in its twenty-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover - five books in one! A Screenwriting Primer -- that provides a concise course in screenwriting basics; A Screenwriting Workbook -- that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions; A Formatting Guide -- that thoroughly covers today's correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts; A Spec Writing Guide -- that demonstrates today's spec style through sample scenes and analysis, with an emphasis on grabbing the reader's interest in the first ten pages; A Sales and Marketing Guide -- that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Among this book's wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. This 6th edition is full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets.

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How to Face the Fears and Take the Risks

Written from both psychological and real-life perspectives, this provocative book can help experienced as well as aspiring screenwriters as they navigate the bumpy road to career security and success. The book combines practical knowledge of the industry with insights into the emotional roadblocks that writers must overcome to succeed. Thought-provoking questions induce self-evaluation as readers are shown how to develop believable characters and story lines, conquer writer's block, consider the pros and cons of a collaborative partnership, and related concerns.

So You Want to Be a Screenwriter

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#film #cinema #screenwriting #filmmaking #johnlandis #movies #moviewriting

The Best Movie Writing 2001 is dedicated to collecting the best writing about our most influential medium, our most popular, evocative and hotly debated art and mode of storytelling, and includes several new features: introductions of each piece by the guest editor; comments by the contributors on their pieces: and a catalog of America's most important movie magazines. Discussions are not limited to individual films, actors and directors but range from the racial politics of Gone With the Wind to the protest surrounding the 1999 adaptation of the book American Psycho; from how the MPAA rates independent films, to the battle between proponents of film and the new digital technology. Includes selections from Ian Buruma, Molly Haskell, Michael Herr, John Irving, Lawrence Kasdan, Jack Kerouac, Stuart Klawans, Stanley Kubric, and others.

Best American Movie Writing 2001

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Idaho

Writing Movies That Get Made

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 Screenwritingis 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 tobe 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.

Crafty Screenwriting

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Bought used, a previous owner left highlights (no notes) in part 5: postproduction. The rest of the book is not annotated. Some wear to the spine. Please reach out if you have any questions, I would be happy to discuss! Thanks 💕

How to Make Your Breakthrough Movie

This book explains in precise, easy to understand language everything the novice director needs to know before taking on his or her first professional assignment.

First Time Director

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#Screenwriting #Reference #Elementsofscreenwriting

California

The Essential Guide to Creative Successful Film and Television Scripts -  From the Intial Idea, Through Plot, Character and Dialogue Development, to the Finished Work

In the tradition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, this screenwriter's guide covers writing specific to the film and television industry as well as general writing advice - truly an "Essential Guide" for the screenwriting process.


The Elements of Screenwriting

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience. In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the "magic" of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.

Story

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Oregon

Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

During the filming of his celebrated novel The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched the veteran editor Walter Murch at work. The Conversations, which grew out of discussions between the two men, is about the craft of filmmaking and deals with every aspect of film, from the first stage of script writing to the final stage of the sound mix. Walter Murch emerged during the 1960s at the centre of a renaissance of American filmmakers which included the directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Fred Zinneman. He worked on a whole raft of great films including the three Godfather films, Julia, American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being and many others. Articulate, intellectual, humorous and passionate about his craft and its devices, Murch brings his vast experience and penetrating insights to bear as he explains how films are made, how they work, how they go wrong and how they can be saved. His experience on Apocalypse Now - both originally and more recently when the film was completely re-cut - and his work with Anthony Minghella on The English Patient provide illuminating highlights.

The Conversations

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Puerto Rico

Was assigned to me during my MFA and we never used it. I have 2 copies because the university messed up! So I am selling both, but this listing is only for 1. I hope someone can get better use out of them then I did!

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Florida

This 7th edition marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A standard by which other screenwriting books are measured, it has sold over 340,000 copies in its twenty-five-year life. Always up-to-date and reliable, it contains everything that both the budding and working screenwriter need under one cover -- five books in one! A Screenwriting Primer -- that provides a concise course in screenwriting basics; A Screenwriting Workbook -- that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions; A Formatting Guide -- that thoroughly covers todays correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts; A Spec Writing Guide -- that demonstrates todays spec style through sample scenes and analysis, with an emphasis on grabbing the readers interest in the first ten pages; A Sales and Marketing Guide -- that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Among this books wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals. The 7th edition is full of new examples, the latest practices, and new material on non-traditional screenplay outlets.

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Indiana

The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing

This book provides writers with the tools necessary to create and market a successful screenplay.

Screenwriting 101

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The 100 Principles of Screenwriting Every Budding Writer Must Know

A guide for budding screenwriters provides tips for how to write dialogue, plot, and characters, including specific information on genres such as horror, romance, and westerns.

T. L. Katahn

Reading for a Living

Michael Chase Walker

Power Screenwriting: The 12 Steps of Story Development by Michael Chase Walker

Eugene Vale

The Technique of Screen and Television Writing by Eugene Vale (1986)

Linda Seger; Edward Jay Whetmore

From Script to Screen

Daniel Gurskis

The Short Screenplay

Viki King

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible

Laura Schellhardt; John Logan (Foreword by)

Screenwriting for Dummies®

Thom Taylor

The Big Deal

David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible

David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible

Sarah Caldwell; Marie-Eve Kielson

So You Want to Be a Screenwriter

John Landis (Editor); Jason Shinder (Editor)

Best American Movie Writing 2001

Alex Epstein

Crafty Screenwriting

Gil Bettman

First Time Director

Irwin R. Blacker

The Elements of Screenwriting

Robert McKee

Story

Michael Ondaatje; Walter Murch

The Conversations

David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible

David Trottier

The Screenwriter's Bible

Neill D. Hicks

Screenwriting 101

Christina Hamlett

Screenwriting for Teens

Syd Field

Screenplay

Syd Field

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting