Could It Be a Movie?: How To Get Ideas Out Of Your Head And Up On The Screen
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1511582820 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Churchman said Stuck in front of that blank page too many times, this tool is the key to finding your motivation.. COULD IT BE A MOVIE?How to get ideas out of your head and up on the screen.Staring at that blank page with all your ideas stuck in your head, in most cases, is the hardest part of filmmaking. To figure out how to mold these thoughts into something real that will eventually get everyone from the producers to the stand-ins, up and moving and to get that audience into their . "A must-read for aspiring screenwriters!" according to Lisa Litberg. Before reading this book, I had never really considered writing a screenplay. But Ms. Hamlett has a way of breaking the process down into manageable--and fascinating--steps. Anyone interested in screenplay writing should definitely buy this practical and useful tool. This book is both well written and conversational, and peppered with examples and activities to really hel
Could that person be you? Within these pages, you’ll not only discover what skills are required to write a screenplay for today’s market but also what kind of factors dictate which ideas get gobbled up faster than a holiday turkey and which ones go the way of a fruitcake. You'll also learn how to acquire and adapt pre-existing material for a screenplay; how to find markets for the kinds of films you want to write; how to predict what tomorrow's audiences will want to see; and how to work successfully with partners, agents, script consultants and independent producers. Perhaps a different medium - plays, novels, short stories - could be your true calling as
About the Author Former actress and director Christina Hamlett is an award-winning author, instructor and media relations expert whose credits to date include 31 books, 157 stage plays, 5 optioned feature films, and hundreds of articles and interviews that appear online and in trade publications worldwide. . She is also a script consultant for the film business (which means she stops a lot of really bad movies from coming to theaters near you) and a professional ghostwriter (which does not mean she talks to dead people). To learn more about her work, visit her website at authorhamlett
She is also a script consultant for the film business (which means she stops a lot of really bad movies from coming to theaters near you) and a professional ghostwriter (which does not mean she talks to dead people). Former actress and director Christina Hamlett is an award-winning author, instructor and media relations expert whose credits to date include 31 books, 157 stage plays, 5 optioned feature films, and hundreds of articles and interviews that appear online and in trade pub