A compulsively readable journey into the area of film-making where all writers, girectors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell. the place where scripts are written, actors hired and sets designed...but the films rarely actually get made!
There are hundreds of books on the market, all trying to teach you how to write a screenplay. Several of them are excellent and useful books. But never - until now - has there been a screenwriting manual written in the form of a screenplay. Our hero, the aspiring screenwriter Danny, is hopelessly in love with Bebe: a hot young starlet. But Bebe won't sleep with Danny until he proves that he can write a brilliant screenplay for her. Helped along the way by a mysterious guide (Virgil) with seeming...
Emotional engagement with visual stories through performance and camera placement is one of the most significant factors in how the audience appreciates a film or a television program. By selecting and combining fragments of moving image and sound the editor influences how the audience receives information. Combining history, theory and practice, this book explains why certain editorial decisions impact on the emotional and narrative engagement of the audience. With full-color examples taken f...
The Shooting Script of the new movie by the team that made Being John Malkovich: writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze - starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep Adaptation concerns Laroche, an eccentric collector of rare orchids (played by Chris Cooper), a journalist called Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) who's writing his story and a screenwriter called Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage), who, in adapting the resultant book, writes himself into the movie...OK? Off-the-wall...
The defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's first three screenplays includes a preface by the author, as well as new critical appreciations by Richard Ayoade, Chloƫ Clifton-Wright and his current widow, Lady Virginia Lovilocke.THE SWINGING MODELS The film that started it all: Hughes's searing indictment of the bikini business's (literal) underbelly.THE ESPECIALLY WAYWARD GIRLA new student...
The defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's last four screenplays includes a preface and afterword by the author.THE TERRIBLE WITCHA feisty undergraduate uncovers fresh witchy business in Ipswich.THE AWFUL WOMAN FROM SPACETwo top feminist scientists find their sense of sisterhood challenged by the arrival of an intergalactic uber-femme.THE DEADLY GUSTThis ill wind blows no one any good in...
Are you an associate producer who needs to juggle projects and vendors while keeping on top of the latest trends and formats? Or an independent filmmaker who can't afford a misstep in the crucial postproduction phase? Take a step back and get a clear overview of the process. This guide will show you how to navigate each step in taking a TV or film project from production to final delivery. Start by getting a handle on the critical issues of budgets and schedules. From there, you'll learn the smo...
"High Sierra" (Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplays S.)
by Douglas Gomery
Either Everything Was Wrong from the Git Go or Right from the Start
by Debbie Lewis-Callender
The Proprietor: the Screenplay and Story behind the Film
by Ismail Merchant
With this screenplay David Mamet gives the traditional prison-break story his special blend of gripping suspense, slapdash buffoonery, and ingenious plotting. Bob, a vicious killer, cheats the electric chair by shooting his way out of the penitentiary, forcing two reluctant convicts to come along. Desperately dodging the cops, Ned and Jim reach a river that runs along the Canadian border. The bridge across it becomes their only hope of reaching safety, but a checkpoint guards the crossing. Mame...
Television Production offers you a very practical guide to professional TV and video production techniques. You will find straightforward description and explanations of the equipment you will use, and discover the best ways to use it. You will also learn how to anticipate and quickly overcome typical everyday problems. You will explore in detail all the major features of television production, learning the secrets of top-grade camerawork, persuasive lighting techniques, effective sound treatmen...
The only screenwriting book that includes a DVD that contains performances of the short films and screenplays that are featured in the book!The beauty and power of any story lies in its ability to connect to the reader, listener, or observer. Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect is the first screenwriting guide to introduce connection as an essential, although essentially overlooked, aspect of creating stories for the screen and of the screenwriting process itself. Written with clarity and hu...
The basis for the hit independent film starring Jason Priestly and John Hurt, Love and Death on Long Island is an update of Death in Venice. When he wanders into the wrong theater and finds himself watching the wretched teen-pic Hotpants College II, cerebral British author Giles De'Ath becomes romantically obsessed with dreamboat Ronnie Bostock. Giles's infatuation drives him to the unthinkable: he reads American fan magazines and watches movies with titles like Tex Mex and Skid Marks. And final...
Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewa...