Overview
A new paradigm for film and television writing. Most books about screenplays instruct on threeact structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that. The Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secretsthe tips, short cuts, tricks and insider advice that will get your story down on paper, maximize your idea and seduce your readers. Do you know why actors pick scripts out of a stack? Why montage sequences don't work? Why the traditional threeact structure is obsolete? Lazarus lifts the veil with hundreds of secrets like these. Lazarus' insights and techniques will smooth and improve any screenwriter's process and make any script more readable and ultimately more salable. The Secrets of Film Writing takes you behind the scenes of feature and television writing and demystifies, once and for all, the Hollywood System.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780312269081
- ISBN-10: 0312269080
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
- Publish Date: June 2001
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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