The Screenwriter's Bible : A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
Trottier, David
From Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Screenwriter's Bible : A Complete Guide ...
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 3rd Edition.
About this title
Much of Trottier's advice is common sense: "Don't write anything that cannot appear on the screen"; to keep casting options open, don't make your physical descriptions too specific; "don't say Ron Howard is looking at the project if he is not." But there are things to know about Hollywood that are, well, quirkier. Don't write the title of your script on the front cover or side binding; present action sequences using the "stacking action" style; in query letters and scripts alike, avoid "big blocks of black ink." Trottier's guidance--from character development and revision to queries and pitches--is invaluable. Getting in the door can seem impossible, but it's not, necessarily. "If you write a script that features a character who has a clear and specific goal," says Trottier, "where there is strong opposition to that goal leading to a crisis and an emotionally satisfying ending, your script will automatically find itself in the upper five percent."
(By the way, MOS is said to have "originated with German director Eric von Stroheim, who would tell his crew, 'Ve'll shoot dis mid out sound'"). --Jane Steinberg
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