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Screenplay

The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script

By Syd Field

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| Paperback | 9780440576471

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From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script..

Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplaContinue

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How long before it won't be a classic any more?

I respect and admire Syd Field. He started from scracht and met very significant people. He's the one who realized how a script is structured: this is amazing. He put a mile stone into screenwriting. But I don't like his books. It's like they were kind of dust, because not really updated. Syd keeps ... (continue)

I respect and admire Syd Field. He started from scracht and met very significant people. He's the one who realized how a script is structured: this is amazing. He put a mile stone into screenwriting. But I don't like his books. It's like they were kind of dust, because not really updated. Syd keeps the pace but when I read a Blake Snyder (who evidently was one of Field's pupil), well, his books are really the thing. Syd is right, but not really hooking. One thing, of what Syd says, I really like: that before writing you need to research a lot and to perfectly know what you are writing about. This is very important and right - and something tha Snyder completely omitted.

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