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Provides aspiring filmmakers with essential guidance and advice on the process of writing the screenplay for their short film.
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Includes information on the technological revolution in digital filmmaking and distribution which has produced an explosion in the number of short filmmakers who want to know how to write and produce short films.
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How do you find an exciting idea for your short film? How do you develop it and turn it into a good story and screenplay? This book tells you how.
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Discusses the dos and don’ts of screenplay writing and advises writers what to include and what to avoid when writing a short film.
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Includes examples of award-winning screenplays and interviews with their writers.
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Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on:
- Story and structure
- Ideas generation
- Plot and pace
- Screenplay format
- Dos and don'ts
- Eliciting emotion
- Dialogue and subtext
- Character design
- Protagonists and antagonists
- Character motivation and goals
- Conflict, obstacles and stakes
- Clichés and Stereotypes
- Beginnings, middles and ends
- Hooking the viewer
- Screenplay competitions
- Loglines, outlines and synopses
- Rewriting and length
- Practicalities and budgets
The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of writing short screenplays.
| release date: |
January 2012 |
| price: |
£16.99 |
| ISBN13: |
9781842435014 |
| binding: |
paperback |
| format: |
B format (198 X 129mm) |
| extent: |
256 |
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| rights: |
world |
| BIC code: |
APFD |
Patrick Nash is an award-winning writer of both short and feature length screenplays. An award winner in Hollywood’s Page Awards, runner up in the British Short Screenplay Competition and BBC’s Tony Doyle Awards among others; he has worked on short films and short film selection panels and juries with the Oscar accredited Foyle Film Festival – the UK’s only Academy accredited film festival.
REVIEWS
Straight talking tome bursting with practical advice
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- Total Film
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4* - Screenwriting handbooks are usually so full of BS, you can't see the wood for the self-actualisation exercises. Refreshing, then, that Patrick Nash's straight talking tome bursts with practical advice, with a ruthless rundown of short film cliches
Total Film
A helpful book for anyone interested in screenwriting
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- Tom Farr, Tom Farr Reviews
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SHORT FILMS: WRITING THE SCREENPLAY by Patrick Nash is a helpful book for anyone interested in screenwriting because it covers all the concepts that are necessary for a writer to write a great screenplay. But it's especially helpful for those interested in short films. Nash refers to short films as a great training ground for aspiring film makers and writers. It makes sense because if you want to write a great screenplay, a great way to know if you would be any good at it is to complete a short screenplay first.
Nash's book walks you through the process of doing that. After a short history lesson on filmmaking and the reasons for embracing short films, Nash gets into the core of the book which is telling a great story through the short film medium. From coming up with a story idea to developing your story into beginning, middle, and end, to structuring your story into a short screenplay, the chapters in SHORT FILMS are relatively short and to the point. One of the most important chapters in the book, I think, is the chapter on screenplay formatting. This takes the guesswork out of formatting in a way that professionals do.
SHORT FILMS is an almost pocket size guide and easy to read in a short time. I've read a lot of books on screenwriting, and while a lot of this stuff I've come across before, this book is a helpful addition.
Tom Farr
Tom Farr Reviews
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