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Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Third Edition
Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Third Edition by Claudia H. JohnsonFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $29.95 Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Third Edition 3 Claudia H. Johnson select a series Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect introduces the essential element of 'human connection' - the ability to 'touch' the reader or observer - to the screenwriting and story creation process for short films. Claudi
Raindance Writers' Lab, Second Edition
Raindance Writer's Lab by Elliot GroveFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $32.95 Raindance Writers' Lab, Second Edition Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay 2 Elliot Grove select a series This is an invaluable manual for the first-time screenwriter. A guide that takes in every aspect of the screenwriting process. --Ayub Khan-Din, Writer for East is East An authoritative guide full of wit and w
Digital Storytelling, Second Edition
Digital Storytelling, Second Edition by Carolyn Handler MillerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $41.95Understand the 'how' and 'why' of interactive storytelling to develop powerful characters, structures, and storylines specifically for digital entertainment.
Write to TV
Write to TV by Martie CookFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $27.95Helps the burgeoning number of fledgling TV writers and couch potatoes with secret writing ambitions become the writers they've dreamed of and successfully navigate the mysterious world of television production.
Alternative Scriptwriting, Fourth Edition
Alternative Scriptwriting, Fourth Edition by Ken Dancyger and Jeff RushFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $33.95Learn to safely break the rules!
Developing Story Ideas, Second Edition
Developing Story Ideas, Second Edition by Michael RabigerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $24.95 Developing Story Ideas, Second Edition 2 Michael Rabiger "Using the tools of the screenwriter's trade... Rabiger reveals how to chart a scene and represent its intensity as a dramatic arc, as well as exploring how to analyse stories for effectiveness, meaning and purpose, which is relevant to film and video cre
Writing the Short Film, Third Edition
Writing the Short Film, Third Edition by Patricia Cooper and Ken DancygerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $35.95One of the few screenwriting books on the challenging short-form genre
Screenwriting
Screenwriting by Declan McGrath and Felim MacDermottFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $45.95 Screenwriting Screencraft Series Declan McGrath Felim MacDermott "...this volume lives up to its promise to "unravel" the language of screenwriting...Highly recommended." S.B. DeMasi, Suffolk County Community College. The 13 screenwriters gathered toge
Global Scriptwriting
Global Scriptwriting by Ken DancygerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $42.95 Global Scriptwriting Ken Dancyger "Global Scriptwriting is a treat of a read, going in-depth into the many voices and stories that are told away from the meddling hand of Hollywood." -The Writer's Guild of Britain Global Scriptwriting offers a look at an exciting new phase in screen storytelling, as writers
Television and Screen Writing, Fourth Edition
Television and Screen Writing, Fourth Edition by Richard A BlumFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $41.95 Television and Screen Writing, Fourth Edition From Concept to Contract 4 Richard A Blum "Very thoughtful and user-friendly; a wonderful conprehensive text." - Nevada McPhearson, Nunez Community College "There was so much information packed on each page I thought I was going to have to highlight the entire book
The New Scriptwriter's Journal
The New Scriptwriter's Journal by Mary JohnsonFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $44.95 The New Scriptwriter's Journal Mary Johnson select a series "I like the focus on process and the "inner journey". It flows with the teaching methods I use.' -Prof. James Anderson, Chaffey College The New Scriptwriter's Journal places you, the writer, in the center of the complex and challenging process of
Screen Adaptation, Second Edition
Screen Adaptation, Second Edition by Kenneth PortnoyFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $48.95 Screen Adaptation, Second Edition A Scriptwriting Handbook 2 Kenneth Portnoy Screen Adaptation : A Scriptwriting Handbook, 2nd ed. examines the challenge screenwriters face when adapting novels, plays, and short stories for the screen. Thoroughly updated to include new exercises and example from current fi
Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing
Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing by Eugene ValeFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $52.95 Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing Eugene Vale select a series 'Eugene Vale, who knows whereof he speaks, has summed up the screen writer's problems in a book that is brilliant, and loaded with common sense.' The New York Times Book Review 'Extremely interesting, for the layman as well as for th
Film Scriptwriting, Second Edition
Film Scriptwriting, Second Edition by Dwight V Swain and JOYE R SWAINFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $66.95 Film Scriptwriting, Second Edition A Practical Manual 2 Dwight V Swain JOYE R SWAIN select a series This second edition of the widely acclaimed Film Scriptwriting is a truly practical manual for the working writer. It provides all the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to script both fact and feature fi