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Screenplay

Screenplay

Syd Field · 1979 · 246 pages

Motion picture authorshipMotion picture playsTechniqueCreative writingMoving-picture authorshipscreenwriting

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One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. *Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.

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