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The Hollywood Standard
The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style
by Christopher Riley
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Paperback, 171 pages |
| Publisher: |
Michael Wiese Productions |
| Pub. Date: |
March 1, 2005 |
| ISBN: |
1932907017 |
| Dimensions: |
7 × 0.49 × 10 inches |
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Thousands of promising scripts never get a fair read from Hollywood because their format is wrong. Poor formatting is the mark of an amateur — and in the ultra-competitive world of screenwriting, the wrong first impression can kill your dreams.
The simple format rules found in this book — which you can learn in an hour — come from Hollywood's top expert on script format and will guarantee that your script makes a winning first impression. Intended to be kept at a screenwriter's fingertips, The Hollywood Standard gives you what even the best script software can't: clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples to take the guesswork out of a multitude of formatting questions that perplex even seasoned screenwriters, waste their time, and steal their confidence.
Contents include:
- when a new scene heading is appropriate and when it isn't
- how to control pace with formatting
- how to make a script page visually inviting to the reader
- what to capitalize and why
- how to get into and out of a POV shot
- what can and can't be included in an establishing shot
- and much more
Buy this book. Learn the rules as if your career depends on it... because it does.
Christopher Riley ran the acclaimed script processing department at Warner Bros. and acted as the studio's script format guru, applying industry standard formatting rules to thousands of film and television scripts from every studio in Hollywood, from Murphy Brown and ER to Batman, Unforgiven and As Good As It Gets. Simply put, he knows more about script format than anyone in Hollywood and shares it all with you in this book. |
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Product Details
| Format: |
Paperback, 171 pages |
| Publisher: |
Michael Wiese Productions |
| Pub. Date: |
March 1, 2005 |
| ISBN: |
1932907017 |
| Dimensions: |
7 × 0.49 × 10 inches |
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