The Screenwriter's Problem Solver
How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problem
Author: Syd Field
Syd Field, author of Screenplay, returns to assist professional and aspiring screenwriters with this workbook. Using well-known films as examples, Field shows the writer how to recognise, locate, and solve problems in a screenplay.
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Syd Field, author of Screenplay, returns to assist professional and aspiring screenwriters with this workbook. Using well-known films as examples, Field shows the writer how to recognise, locate, and solve problems in a screenplay.
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Using well-known films as examples, Syd Fiel d shows aspiring screenwriters how to recognise, locate and solve problems in a screenplay, from the finest detail to qu estions of character, motivation, plot, etc. '
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“With examples fromPulp Fiction, How to Make an American Quilt, The Shawshank Redemption, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow...and more of Hollywood's biggest hits "The most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world."-The Hollywood Reporter "If I were writing screenplays...I would carry Syd Field around in my back pocket wherever I went."-Steven Bochco, writerproducerdirector,L.A. Law, NYPD Blue "I basedLike Water For Chocolateon what i learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story."-Laura Esquivel”
With examples from Pulp Fiction, How to Make an American Quilt, The Shawshank Redemption, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow...and more of Hollywood's biggest hits
"The most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world."—The Hollywood Reporter
"If I were writing screenplays...I would carry Syd Field around in my back pocket wherever I went."—Steven Bochco, writerproducerdirector, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue
"I based Like Water For Chocolate on what i learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story."—Laura Esquivel
About the Author
Syd Field (1935–2013), the internationally renowned “guru of screenwriting,” was the author of eight bestselling books on the subject, including Screenplay, published in twenty-three languages and used in hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide and around the world. He was inducted into the Final Draft Hall of Fame in 2006 and was the first inductee into the Screenwriting Hall of Fame of the American Screenwriting Association. He was also a special consultant to the Film Preservation Project for the Getty Center.
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