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Teach Yourself Screenwriting Third Edition
Ray Frensham

Paperback
£9.99

ISBN: 9780340972335
Published: 28/11/2008
Extent: 320 pages
Illustrations: 10 b/w line drawings


 
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Summary:
Teach Yourself Screenwriting is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole. Focusing on every aspect of screenwriting from how to set about the writing process and develop your characters, plot and structure to how to break into this highly competitive industry and make a career for yourself as a writer, this book uncovers all. This new edition has been completey updated to include discussion of the most recent developments in this incredibly fast-moving industry. It also includes a foreword by Andrew Davies.


  • Includes a foreword by Andrew Davies.
  • The best-selling title on screenwriting according to BookScan 2007 sales.
  • Fully updated to include discussion of the most recent films and developments in this fast-moving industry.
  • This book covers it all - the writing process, script development and refinement and how to break-in to the industry and establish a career as a writer.
  • This is a jargon-free guide (unlike the competition). There is a very comprehensive 'taking it further' section.


Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
introduction
screenplay layout: your visual language
originating your ideas
developing your ideas: from idea to framework
creating your characters
character growth, motivation and conflict
structure
structural variations
'deep structure'
enhancing emotion
the next step
the actual writing
the craft of the rewrite
the 'finished' item
assembling your portfolio
copyright
agents: what they do, how to get and keep one
adaptations, shorts, soaps, series, sitcoms and collaborations
the industry: how it works and your place in it
your career as a writer
final comments
appendices


About the Author(s):
Ray Frensham is a writer, script doctor, freelance lecturer and script workshop organizer. He is ex-chairman of The Screenwriters’ Workshop.


Readership:
Those interested in getting into screenwriting.


Reviews:

'Everything that you need to know can be found between these covers.'

Total Film Magazine

'... it is so useful to have the generally accepted industry wisdom laid out for you in such an accessible, clear, entertaining, and above all, INEXPENSIVE format.'
Andrew Davies, in the foreword to the book

'Raymond Frensham's invaluable guide to writing screenplays, 10th in the film best-sellers...'

The Independent Arts and Book Review


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