Description
This is an updated edition of the first book to help the beginning writer enter the burgeoning world of short films from travelogues to animated shorts.
William H. Phillips has extensively revised and updated to include three new and recent original short screenplays and detailed descriptions and photographs of two award-winning short films. Focusing on visualization, dialogue, settings, characters, structure, and themes, Phillips provides a guide to writing scripts for films of less than thirty minutes, from gathering and organizing materials to writing, rewriting, and formatting. Each new chapter includes new and revised ideas and examples.
The glossary, bibliography, descriptions of short films, and the list of distributors of short films and videotapes have also been extensively rewritten and updated. Included are citations for short films and web site addresses useful to the short script writer.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Richard Walter
Preface
Part One: Getting Started
1. Finding Sources
Part Two: Studying Scripts and Films - Screenplays
2. That's What I Love about You
3. Rock of Hope
4. The Road - Finished Films: Cutting Continuity Scripts
5. Avenue X
6. The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
7. Scripts and Films: Goals and Means
Part Three: Writing Scripts - Before You Begin
8. Planning
9. Writing
10. Rewriting
Epilogue: Reaching Listeners and Viewers
Glossary
Bibliography
Films and Videos
Distributors of Short Films and Videotapes
Index
About the Author
William H. Phillips is a professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of Analyzing
Films.
Related Interest
6 x 9, 256 pages
August 1999