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Dealmaking In The Film And Television Industry: From Negotiations To |
"Dealmaking - the popular, award-winning self-defense book for everyone working in the film and television industry - is now updated to include the latest legal rulings and entertainment technology developments. Addressing a general, non-attorney readership, it is a fascinating, highly accessible guide to current entertainment law's peculiarities, creative practices, and practical applications. Armed with Dealmaking, filmmakers can save themselves thousands of dollars in legal fees as they navigate the shark-infested waters of the entertainment business. Whether you're a producer, writer, director, or actor, Mark Litwak will help you make the most of your business dealings while steering you clear of the many contractual traps that may await you."
Price: 32.95
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Riding The Alligator: Strategies For A Career In Screenplay Writing |
"As a director, I cannot achieve my goals without the help of creative and courageous writers. Pen ™s book is unique in that it addresses the entire landscape of movie writing as a career, and most especially encourages artists who write from the heart and strive for originality. -Ron Howard, Director/Producer/Writer/Actor Written by award-winning producer/writer/director and USC adjunct professor Pen Densham, this in-depth guide explores specific screenplay writing techniques while simultaneously imparting industry-tested strategies for carving a successful, long-term career. Through inspiring philosophies and professional secrets, plus insights from his company, Trilogy Entertainment Group, Pen imparts wisdom on such pertinent topics as structuring stories and creating compelling characters stars will want to play, choosing an artistic career, overcoming the many challenges to selling yourself and your work, finding an agent, and being true to one ™s nature. Pen spea"
Price: 24.95
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The Artful Edit: On The Practice Of Editing Yourself - Softcover |
"The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood ""or simply overlooked ""art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby. Susan Bell, a veteran book editor, also offers strategic tips and exercises for self-editing and a series of remarkable interviews, taking us into the studios of successful authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Ann Patchett to learn from their various approaches to revision. Much more than a manual, The Artful Edit inspires readers to think about both the discipline and the creativity of editing and how it can enhance their work. In the computer age of lightning-quick composition, this book reminds readers that editing is not simply a spell-check. A vigorous investigation into the history and meaning of the edit, this book, like The Elements of Style, is a must-have companion for every writer."
Price: 14.95
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"The Art Of Plotting: How To Add Emotion, Excitement, And Depth To Your" |
"Plot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. That's the message of The Art of Plotting, which teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, characterization, and exposition to make stories compelling. Using examples from recent and classic movies, author Linda J. Cowgill demonstrates how the plot springs naturally from the characters--and how that technique makes audiences connect with the story on a more intimate level. Easy exercises reveal common plot problems and help writers overcome them."
Price: 18.95
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The Big Lebowski - Softcover Edition |
"Mistaken identity. A stolen rug. Kidnapping. Bowling. The Dude. The Coen Brother's cult classic homage to the noir, weird heart of Los Angeles is back in print! Follow The Dude as he attempts to get back his stolen rug (It really ties the room together), gets mixed up with a bogus kidnapping, and battles for bowling glory. The perfect accompaniment to studying the hit movie, The Big Lebowski screenplay also comes in handy for backyard re-enactments. So mix up a white Russian, and like The Dude, abide."
Price: 15
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Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life - Softcover |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.' ~From Bird by Bird Less of a How To and more of a Why Not?, Bird by Bird offers up advice and comfort for aspiring and working writers alike. A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps. ~ Los Angeles Times Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful and provocative. ~ New York Time Book Review A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and ki"
Price: 15
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Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques For Transforming Your First Draft |
"Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won't be able to forget. In Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell draws on his experience as a novelist and instructor to provide specific revision tips geared toward the first read-through, as well as targeted self-editing instruction focusing on the individual elements of a novel like plot, structure, characters, theme, voice, style, setting, and endings. You'll learn how to: Write a cleaner first draft right out of the gate using Bell's plotting principles Get the most out of revision and self-editing techniques by honing your skills with detailed exercises Systematically revise a completed draft using the ultimate revision checklist that talks you through the core story elements Whether you're in the process of writing a novel, have a finished draft you don't know what to do with, or have a r"
Price: 16.99
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The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood And Other Essays - Softcover |
"William Goldman, who holds two Academy Awards for his screenwriting (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men), and is author of the perennial best seller Adventures in the Screen Trade, scrutinizes the Hollywood movie scene of the past decade in this engaging collection. With the film-world-savvy and razor-sharp commentary for which he is known, he provides an insider's take on today's movie world as he takes a look at �the big picture � on Hollywood, screenwriting, and the future of American cinema."
Price: 16.95
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Breakfast With Sharks - Softcover Edition |
"Screenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive and useful, Breakfast with Sharks is a real guide to navigating the murky waters of the Hollywood system. Unlike most of the screenwriting books available, here ™s one that tells you what to do after you ™ve finished your surefire-hit screenplay. Written from the perspective of Michael Lent, an in-the-trenches working screenwriter in Hollywood, this is a real-world look into the script-to-screen business as it is practiced today. Breakfast with Sharks is filled with useful advice on everything from the ins and outs of moving to Los Angeles to understanding terms like �spec, � �option, � and �assignment. � Here you ™ll learn what to expect from agents and managers and who does what in the "
Price: 15.99
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Screenplay Companion: A Workbook For Screenwriters - Spiral Bound |
"Before you can write one word, you have to have an idea of what to write. Screenplay Companion is a writer's workbook that will help you develop that idea for your screenplay, novel, or play. You keep all of your scenes, characters, journal entries, notes, research and more in one workbook. All the work you put into your project will always be there for you. No more loosing that note or great idea for a scene. Organized to help you start and finish your script Whether you're working writer or first time writer, Screenplay Companion will help you create store, organize and stay on top of your deadline and schedules. Screenplay Companion is straight forward and easy to use. Whether you're traveling or staying at home, you'll always be able to work on your script. Capturing ideas in the middle of the night or at a coffee shop. This work-book was designed to be a companion to the many 'how-to-write' books in the marketplace today. Screenplay Companion features: STORY: Helps you lay "
Price: 24.95
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Brokeback Mountain: Story To Screenplay - Softcover Edition |
"Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture Brokeback Mountain is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that are the stuff of Hollywood history (The New York Times). Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay offers readers insight into how this classic short story was turned into an award-winning screenplay and film. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning screenplay for the major motion picture, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critical"
Price: 16
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Treatment Pack - Softcover Edition |
"If you've ever wondered how treatments differ from one another for television series, movies-of-the-week or features, then you ™ve found your book. This pack looks like and feels like a script, and inside you'll find treatments for comedy, drama, and science fiction features, a seven-act structured movie-of-the-week treatment, and a television series treatment. A treatment is more of a selling tool than a finished script, and you'll learn a lot of what to do or not to do by reading these various examples, written or co-written by David Freeman and others."
Price: 19.7
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Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways To Make It Great - Softcover Edition |
"All beginning screenwriters make the same mistakes and many pros do, too! Because nobody in Hollywood will give your screenplay a second chance, it better be perfect the first time out. Never again worry if a producer, agent or creative exec has tossed your script into the trash by page ten. Use the comprehensive checklist in Your Screenplay Sucks! to eliminate the flaws in your script for a pedal-to-the-metal, cover-to-cover read. In today's highly competitive story market, this is the only book that finds the flaws in your script - like a heat-seeking missile - and shows you exactly how to eliminate them."
Price: 19.95
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The Tv Writer's Workbook: A Creative Approach To Television Scripts - |
"Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique hands-on guide, television writer and producer Ellen Sandler shares the trade secrets she learned while writing for hit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Coach. She offers concrete advice on everything from finding a story to getting hired on a current series. Filled with easy-to-implement exercises and practical wisdom, this ingenious how-to handbook outlines the steps for becoming a professional TV writer, starting with a winning script. Sandler explains the difference between selling and telling, form and formula, and theme and plot. In The TV Writer's Workbook, discover: A technique for breaking down a show style so you're as close to being in the writing room as you can get without actually having a job there The 3 elements for that essential Concept Line that you must have in order to create a story with passion and consequence Mining the 7 Deadly"
Price: 16
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Away We Go - Softcover Edition |
"The first original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and directed by Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes, Away We Go finds longtime couple Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) expecting a baby, and the impending child's only living grandparents are moving to ""where else ""Belgium. Burt and Verona head out on the road, across America, looking for the right place to call home. Along the way they encounter a succession of strange and hilarious friends and relatives (played by a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Catherine O ™Hara, Maggie Gyllenhall, Josh Hamilton, Allison Janney, and Jim Gaffigan), most of whom have no idea what they ™re doing. In the end ""with and despite the help of those they meet on their journey ""Burt and Verona come closer to an understanding of their own definition of home and family."
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Truby's Blockbuster 6.0 - Boxed Edition (Mac & Pc) |
"I'm not exaggerating: Truby's Blockbuster revolutionized how I work. It's the simplest way I've ever found to build structure, character and theme. If you use a computer to write screenplays, you'll want Blockbuster. - Laurence Dworet, screenwriter Outbreak Blockbuster is an ingenious and multilevel guide through the maze of story organization... way ahead of any other writing tool I know of. - Jeff Arch, screenwriter Sleepless in Seattle I think of all of them Truby's the best. I actually use Blockbuster, because I think he's really good. For my taste, his stuff cuts the deepest, and allows you to develop the most detailed structure and outline. - Larry Wilson, screenwriter Beetlejuice, Addams Family Truby ™s Blockbuster puts hundreds of professional techniques at your fingertips to help you create a great story, in a fraction of the usual time and effort. Based on an interface that teaches as you write, Blockbuster shows you the deep structural weaknesses th"
Price: 199
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Before Sunrise And Before Sunset - Softcover Edition |
"In one volume, the screenplays for two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering connection between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, meets Celine, a young French woman. Jesse is at the end of both a romance and his European trip, and the two are immediately drawn to each other. Despite knowing this may be the only time they will see each other, they share everything over the course of a few hours in Vienna and promise to meet again. Nearly a decade later, Jesse, now a novelist on a book tour, sees Celine in a bookstore in Paris. Again their time is short, and they spend it quickly reestablishing the connection they experienced on their first meeting and lamenting the way life has unfolded. Romantic, poignant, understated, and often profound, these two screenplays are already classics."
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Being John Malkovich - Softcover Edition |
"Ever wanted to be someone else? Specifically, have you ever wished to be the Oscar-nominated star of Dangerous Liaisons, The Sheltering Sky, Portrait of a Lady, and Con Air? Well now you can explore this fantasy in Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for the hit comedy directed by Spike Jonze, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and the inimitable Mr. Malkovich himself. Craig Schwartz is nearing the end of his string. A gifted street-puppeteer, he nevertheless finds that New York City has little use, or tolerance, for his special talents. Worse, his ten-year marriage to Lotte, a workaholic pet-store employee, has turned stale. Then the nimble-fingered Craig lands a job as a filing clerk in an office building. There he meets bored, beautiful Mazine, but his attempts to woo her are smartly rebuffed. Rejected and dejected, Craig retreats into his work. One night, rummaging behind a filing cabinet, he comes upon a hidden passageway that leads straight into the m"
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Capote - Softcover Edition |
"In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family ""the Clutters ""in Holcomb, Kansas. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be as compelling as fiction. He convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Though his childlike voice, fey mannerisms and unconventional clothes arouse initial hostility in a part of the country that still thinks of itself as part of the Old West, Capote quickly wins the trust of the locals, most notably Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper), the Kansas Bureau of Investigat"
Price: 19.95
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Career Opportunities In The Film Industry - Softcover Edition |
"Lights...camera...action! This title provides detailed profiles of more than 80 jobs in this exciting field. Since the first edition of Career Opportunities in the Film Industry was published, the digital revolution and the blossoming broadband business on the Internet have changed the way many movies are shot, edited, distributed, and even viewed. Featuring more than 80 job profiles - with five new to this edition - this new edition updates all key information, including salary ranges, employment outlook, and technical advances. Appendixes, which have been completely updated, include directories of colleges and universities; non-degree training programs; professional unions and associations; film competitions, fellowships, internships, and festivals; and more. A glossary defines key terms, and a helpful bibliography includes books, industry publications, and Web resources. New and updated career profiles include: Animal safety representative; Animal trainer; Best boy; Entertainmen"
Price: 18.95
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"Crashing Hollywood: How To Keep Your Integrity Up, Your Clothes On," |
"If you've ever had visions of walking the red carpet, eluding the Paparazzi, forgetting to mention someone's name in your Academy Award ® acceptance speech or running into Spielberg on the lot - there's finally a book that will help make those dreams a reality. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a zany, yet practical look at breaking into Hollywood from a wannabe's perspective. Filled with tips, warnings, and inspiring (even tragic) tales from regular Joes to A-list talent, this book pulls no punches about what it really takes to get your foot in the door and the rest of your anatomy into the wild and often wacky corridors of Tinseltown."
Price: 24.95
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Created By...: Inside The Minds Of Tv's Top Show Creators - Softcover |
"Included in Disney's Recommended Reading List! As entertaining as it is enlightening, Created By � presents a stellar cast of 21 show creators who candidly talk about writing and selling hit television series. J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost) Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) Yvette Lee Bowser (Living Single, Half & Half) Mark Brazill (That '70s Show) Ilene Chaiken (The L Word) Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) Tom Fontana (Oz) Tracy Gamble (8 Simple Rules) Dave Hackel (Becker) Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia) Brenda Hampton (7th Heaven, Fat Actress) Bill Lawrence (Scrubs) Dennis Leoni (Resurrection Blvd.) Max Mutchnick and David Kohan (Will & Grace) Tracy Newman and Jonathan Stark (According to Jim) Josh Schwartz (The O.C.) Shawn Ryan (The Shield) Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls) Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) They discuss: influences writing spec scripts first jobs in TV getting an agent mentors being staffed as a writer the pitch "
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Cut To The Chase: Forty-Five Years Of Editing America's Favorite |
"It has often been said that sculptors don ™t create great art from marble, they simply �release the art that already exists within the stone. � The same could be said of film editors, who take a large, undefined collection of film stock, and cut, shape, and mold the elements to create a specific artistic interpretation of the story. An editor ™s sense of pace, shot flow, and story helps create classic movies that are entertaining, innovative, and when the magic is just right, unforgettable. Eclectic and unpredictable films such as The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, Catch-22, and Who ™s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? helped usher in what many historians and film buffs call, The Golden Age of Cinema. As diverse as these films were, they had one thing in common. They were all edited by one man, Sam O ™Steen. Sam O ™Steen was a legendary film editor with impeccable taste and elegance who helped sculpt and shape some of the most influential movies in the histo"
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The Dc Comics Guide To Writing Comics - Softcover Edition |
"A living legend in the comics industry, author Dennis O'Neil reveals the inside tricks and no-fail techniques for comic book storytelling. In The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, he covers the various methods of writing scripts, procedures for developing a story structure, building subplots, creating well-rounded characters, and much more, including guidelines for writing proposals to editors that command attention and get results."
Price: 21.95
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The Dv Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach To Making Killer Action |
"Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book is a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feature films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, to creating specific special effects (including gunfire, Kung Fu fighting, car chases, dismemberment, and more) to editing and mixing sound and music. Its mantra is that the best, low-budget action moviemakers must visualize the end"
Price: 49.99
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Now Write! Screenwriting: Screenwriting Exercises From Today's Best |
"Whether you believe in writer ™s block or not, you ™ve no doubt had days that consist mostly of staring at a blank page. Most of the time, all you need is that simple if not elusive motivational key that ignites your creative engine and gets those wheels turning. Now Write! Screenwriting is the book to do just that. The Now Write! series has been helping writers of all mediums thwart the blinking cursor for years. In this edition, the renowned screenwriters of films like Raging Bull, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear and Terminator 2 are joined by television scribes of �Lost, � �True Blood, � and �The Shield � to guide you through their personal favorite writing exercises. While learning from the masters is essential to writing, putting those lessons into practice can be daunting. Not with Now Write! In this book, each prompt comes with commentary by the author to explain why their method works, and how to make every drill work for you so that you can get to work immedi"
Price: 14.95
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A Dash Of Style: The Art And Mastery Of Punctuation - Softcover |
"The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. This short, practical book shows authors the benefits that can be reaped from mastering punctuation: the art of style, sentence length, meaning, and economy of words. There are full-length chapters devoted to the period, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, quotation marks, the dash and parentheses, the paragraph and section break, and a cumulative chapter on integrating them all into The Symphony of Punctuation. Filled with exercises and examples from literary masters (Why did Poe and Melville rely on the semicolon? Why did Hemingway embrace the period?), A Dash of Style is interactive, highly engaging, and a necessity for creative writers as well as for anyone looking to make punctuati"
Price: 13.95
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