A Screenwriting book that uses a �ｽlet�ｽs-get-down-to-brass-tacks�ｽ approach to feature filmmaking and professional scriptwriting concentrated on the essential creative skills, technical aspects and movie business principles in the screenwriting marketplace. A screenwriting book written in a simple, straight-forward witty prose style, The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting is a guide for beginning screenwriters, film students & independent filmmakers interested in learning how to write a screenplay, packed with screenwriting tips, tricks, advice, rules, road-maps and pitfalls to avoid when writing your first script or making your first film. For beginning screenwriters/filmmakers and intermediate screenwriters interested in learning the screenwriting process, how to craft a feature length story, script/screenplay format, how to write a feature film, and how to sell a screenplay or how to get a literary agent, representation, negotiate the sale of a screenplay,
The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting teaches filmmaking basics and the professional scriptwriting trade while taking you to the next step in your screenwriting career. Learn how to develop characters, write dialoge and construct scenes while editing the fat. Get inside tips for pitching your story to Hollywood, pitchfests, agents and managers, the WGA, contracts for screenwiritng, selling your script, film producers and film directors, script options, pitchfests, screenwriting contests, filmschool, and movie business trade advice. Discover the rules of screenwriting from first draft to final draft to sales pitch to credits and royalties. Tools for writing your oulting/treatment, synopisis, logline, beat sheet and script rewriting.
