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Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on:

  • Story and structure
  • Ideas generation
  • Plot and pace
  • Screenplay format
  • Dos and don'ts
  • Eliciting emotion
  • Dialogue and subtext
  • Character design
  • Protagonists and antagonists
  • Character motivation and goals
  • Conflict, obstacles and stakes
  • Clichés and Stereotypes
  • Beginnings, middles and ends
  • Hooking the viewer
  • Screenplay competitions
  • Loglines, outlines and synopses
  • Rewriting and length
  • Practicalities and budgets

The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of writing short screenplays.

Short Films: Writing the Screenplay

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    Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 12/01/2012
    ISBN13: 9781842435014, 978-1842435014
    ISBN10: 1842435019

    Number of Pages: 256

    Description

    Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on:

    • Story and structure
    • Ideas generation
    • Plot and pace
    • Screenplay format
    • Dos and don'ts
    • Eliciting emotion
    • Dialogue and subtext
    • Character design
    • Protagonists and antagonists
    • Character motivation and goals
    • Conflict, obstacles and stakes
    • Clichés and Stereotypes
    • Beginnings, middles and ends
    • Hooking the viewer
    • Screenplay competitions
    • Loglines, outlines and synopses
    • Rewriting and length
    • Practicalities and budgets

    The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of writing short screenplays.

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