Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
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- ISBN13: 9780385339032
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A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Meadow’s bestselling books to place a match to successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling leader has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insider’s perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished speech, here are easily understood guidelines to help aspiring screenwriters—from novices to practiced writers—hone their craft. Filled with updated material—including all-new personal anecdotes and insights, guidelines on marketing and collaboration, plus analyses of recent films, from American Beauty to Lord of the Rings—Screenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will make it in Hollywood. Learn:
•Why the first ten pages of your speech are crucially vital
•How to visually “grab” the reader from page one, word one
•Why structure and character are the essential foundation of your screenplay
•How to adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay
•Tips on protecting your work—three officially authorized ways to aver ownership of your screenplay
•The essentials of writing fantastic dialogue, making character, building a tale line, overcoming writer’s block, getting an agent, and much more.
With this newly updated edition of his bestselling classic, Syd Meadow proves yet again why he is revered as the master of the screenplay—and why his celebrated guide has become the industry’s gold standard for successful screenwriting.
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I have used this book as a reference tool for a few years now. When I take my finished product to an agent, he laughs at me and questioned where I learned to write. When I told him that I used Sceenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Meadow, he laughed at me even harder. He bascally told me that I had the BASIC concepts down, but if I wanted to follow a “excellent” writer he introduced me to The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier.
This came from the William Morris Agency, so I knew I couldn’t go incorrect. He liked the tale and chose to represent me if I offered him a better product. I went home a small discouraged. I came online to Amazon and bought the book. After I read it and looked over my screenplay, I saw where I made the mistakes.
Now, I have sold a few movies/treatments and have another project being looked at by another Hollywood staple. All thanks to Mr. Trottier.
In additional words, pay out a few extra dollars to get the Screenwriters Bible and do it the “right” way.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought Fred Saberhagen’s “Berserker Fury” (1997) was redundant. But while Syd Meadow’s “Screenplay” offers plenty of reassurance to the wanna-be screenwriter, pretty soon I got the point and was tired of all the cheerleading.
Meadow may indeed have something substantial to say, but I couldn’t help wondering if this book ongoing out as photocopied handouts (since Meadow rumor has it that taught at Sherwood Oaks Experimental College) and finished up as a hardbound book. That led me to question if the revisions to the successive editions of the book (1979, 1982, 1994) didn’t simply consist of inserting additional redundancies.
If you can stand to wade through (and/or “weed through”) the pep talk, you might really get something out of this book. I couldn’t, so I didn’t.
That means it’s time to drag out J. Michael (“Babylon 5,” “Murder, She Wrote”) Straczynski’s “The Perfect Book of Scripwriting” (subtitled “The all-in-one guide to writing and selling screenplays, teleplays, theatrical plays, radio scripts and animation scripts”).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book has been the best, is the best and will stay one of the best in the future. It is a must for any filmmaker. It is written very well and to the point. It guides filmmakers to renovate the blue print of their projects.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book I ordered too late to have it arrive for the first class I needed it for. It got there early anyway. Awesome speedy service.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I red SCREENPLAY many years ago before righting my own movie, BILLY ‘N’ BILLIE. Iliked the book. It was reel excellent at showing you what elimints are need in construkting a movie that will cell.There was only one thing that buged me and that was he says that all excellent movies follow a certin pairadime. But then on page 118 he says “What about NASHVILLE? Is that an exception?” He then shows how it doesnt seem like it but NASHVILLE reely does follow the pattern. Then he winds it up by adage “Robert Altman…films may look randomly composed but in reality they are executed with sculpted finesse. NASHVILLE fits the paradigm to a tee.” (It seems I mispelled paradigm earlyer but you knew what I ment right?) But what bugs me is that NASHVILLE reely doesnt fit the paradigm to a tee at all and SYD FIELD didnt have the curage of his conviktions to come out and say so. and ferthermore NASHVILLE is not a excellent movie at all. I tryed to watch it three times and never made it. But the rest of this book is excellent. My movie BILLY ‘N’ BILLIE nobody bought but even tho that happened to me I still reflect this book is excellent and I wreckamend it. My copy is totaly dogeared! I still dont no why my movie didnt cell but I might re-right it today on my lunch brake and try it again. Goodluck everyone!!!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5