Product Overview
A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Fields bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insiders perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help aspiring screenwritersfrom novices to practiced writershone their craft. Filled with updated materialincluding all-new personal anecdotes and insights, guidelines on marketing and collaboration, plus analyses of recent films, from American Beauty to Lord of the RingsScreenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will succeed in Hollywood. Discover:
Why the first ten pages of your script are crucially important
How to visually grab the reader from page one, word one
Why structure and character are the essential foundation of your screenplay
How to adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay
Tips on protecting your workthree legal ways to claim ownership of your screenplay
The essentials of writing great dialogue, creating character, building a story line, overcoming writers block, getting an agent, and much more.
With this newly updated edition of his bestselling classic, Syd Field proves yet again why he is revered as the master of the screenplayand why his celebrated guide has become the industrys gold standard for successful screenwriting.
