Motion picture authorship

A new complete course in screenwriting, designed to take the reader from complete Beginner to the point at which they have completed, edited and redrafted their first piece of work. Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenp...

Conflict is the very heart and soul of drama. In this book, mythologist Pamela Jayne Smith explores character conflict and the multiple ways to achieve it in your stories. She looks particularly at how to create resonant villains and how to match protagonist to antagonist.

This title takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading, and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television, and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be written and read with both future readers and the future film i...

What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? This book answers these questions and more, offering a comprehensive introduction to writing scripts for film, television, the Internet, and interactive mul...

Almost two hundred practical exercises, techniques, and ideas for every part of your process, designed to equip you with everything required to kickstart your creativity, develop your craft, and make your writing the very best that it can be. Perfect for playwrights and screenwriters of all level...