Story Sense: Writing Story and Script for Feature Films and Television

About this book

This is the first true textbook for a course in screenwriting. Story Sense provides specific strategies for writing story character and script. A wealth of techniques are suggested so that screenwriters can select those that work best for them. The book has been conceived as a working manual for screenwriters and offers hands-on advice for solving the many problems that crop up as the work progresses. In addition the book includes examples of script format a glossary of film terms the Writers Guilds compensation terms and such insider examples as a sample studio script evaluation form a sample script analysis a sample studio readers questionnaire and a sample re-write.