- ISBN13: 9781879505841
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This is six books in one. Book 1 - A screenwriting primer that provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. Book 2 - A workbook that walks the writer through the writing process, from nascent ideas through revisions. Book 3 - A formatting guide that presents correct formats for both screenplays and TV scripts. Book 4 - A spec writing guide that demonstrates today's spec style through sample scenes and analysis. Book 5 - A sales and marketing guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Book 6 - A resource guide that provides addresses and contacts for industry organisations, schools, publications, support groups, services, contests, etc. Among its wealth of practical information are sample query letters, useful worksheets and checklists, hundreds of examples, sample scenes, and straightforward explanations of screenwriting fundamentals.Amazon.com Review
How does a spec script differ from a shooting script? What kind of fasteners should one use to bind a script? How did the term MOS come to mean without sound? You'll find the answers to these pressing questions and much more in David Trottier's eminently usable Screenwriter's Bible. The avuncular Trottier--a writer-producer, script consultant, and seminar leader--has written a friendly guide through the Hollywood morass. He touts it as six books in one: it's "a screenwriting primer, a screenwriting workbook, a formatting guide, a spec writing guide, a sales and marketing guide, [and] a resource guide."
Much of Trottier's advice is common sense: "Don't write anything that cannot appear on the screen"; to keep casting options open, don't make your physical descriptions too specific; "don't say Ron Howard is looking at the project if he is not." But there are things to know about Hollywood that are, well, quirkier. Don't write the title of your script on the front cover or side binding; present action sequences using the "stacking action" style; in query letters and scripts alike, avoid "big blocks of black ink." Trottier's guidance--from character development and revision to queries and pitches--is invaluable. Getting in the door can seem impossible, but it's not, necessarily. "If you write a script that features a character who has a clear and specific goal," says Trottier, "where there is strong opposition to that goal leading to a crisis and an emotionally satisfying ending, your script will automatically find itself in the upper five percent."
(By the way, MOS is said to have "originated with German director Eric von Stroheim, who would tell his crew, 'Ve'll shoot dis mid out sound'"). --Jane Steinberg
The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
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Very disappointed in this purchase. High unorganized and hard to follow way to write a book. What the heck? I buy books to help me, not confuse and irritate me! Some good points but mostly my anger speaks more about this book than anything.
Rating: 2 / 5
The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
Do this but don’t do that. What a lot of nonsense.
It would be more beneficial to read Aristotle’s Poetics and to focus on
writing an excellent story, than to become narrow minded and learn how to
space your lines, format the pages and adhere to the cliché `more is less,’
which tells you, that oxymoron’s or contradictions are acceptable. In other
words, this book is full of rules for the sake of rules. Precisely what a creative
mind should avoid.
This book reminds me of the rules formed by the conventions of Europe
to preserve certain standards during the classicism period. For example,
no handkerchiefs were permitted on stage, or a woman of nobility was not to
allow a defamed man into her room. The rules were arbitrary and they were
loosely based on Aristotle’s Poetics. Corneille had rejected the rules to produce
one of the greatest plays. The play is El Cid.
The Screenwriter’s bible is pedantic. Avoid it at all costs. If you want to create great stories,
read the great playwrights, Schiller, Corneille, Sophocles, study literature. Garbage
presented in a professional manner is still garbage. Learn how to write a great story
and the story shall sell itself.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
We recommend it to many of our customers using our email query service Scriptblaster.com
It’s a great tool for any screenwriter.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
Screenwriters Bible?
This is what your girl friend would give you in her return visit from the library; she would “make you a tape”; she would go to the library, get a whole bunch of things that have the label “screenwriting” and shove them in this little file when she heard your going to be screenwriting.
I honestly thought that this thing would be a large book that deals exclusively with script format.
The truth is that this guy basically went to the Screenwriters section in a library, tore out a whole bunch of pages from everything he could get his hands on and shoved it into this little book.
It is everything and nothing at all.
Sorry. If you dont have access to many things as is, if you dont have access to a library, a book store, the internet, if you are in the Amazon Jungle where no signs of life exist for hundreds of miles, then this might be the best book out there.
If you are truly void of all resources,
cannot get your hands on anything in regards to Screenwriting,
this collage of snipets from everything under the sun might be for you.
One of the most useless books out there. (But then again, so are most screenwriting books).
Not the best for Format. Thats for sure.
Rating: 2 / 5
The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
I ordered this and I wasn’t sure if it was brand new or used but it was new. I needed this for class and it got here pretty quick. It was definitely cheaper than it would have been at the school bookstore.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script