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Elements of Style for Screenwriters
author:Paul Argentini
price: $9.56
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Great book for formatting your screenplay
In the grand tradition of Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE, Paul Argentini presents an essential reference masterpiece in the art of clear and concise principles of screenplay formatting, structure and style for screenwriters. Argentini explains how to design and format manuscripts to impress any film school professor, story editor, agent, producer or studio executive. No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help screenwriters more than this persistant volume. Many professional screenwriters will advise keeping a copy of this book at arms reach. Paul Argentini is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter and resides in Great Barrington, Massachussetts. Great book for formatting your screenplay
In the grand tradition of Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE, Paul Argentini presents an essential reference masterpiece in the art of clear and concise principles of screenplay formatting, structure and style for screenwriters. Argentini explains how to design and format manuscripts to impress any film school professor, story editor, agent, producer or studio executive. No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help screenwriters more than this persistant volume. Many professional screenwriters will advise keeping a copy of this book at arms reach. Paul Argentini is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter and resides in Great Barrington, Massachussetts.
This book has pretty much all the elements and their defenitions of screenwriting.it explains with clarity what the purpose of that term is on the screenplay.you should try "the screenwriters bible" by david trottier to get a full explanation of what it takes to write screenplays.
The book give an informative description of all of the screenwriter's neccecesities for writing a screenplay format wise, however it does not suggest that the book is made for production screenplay, not spec scripts. There is mention of spec scripts occasionaly, but this would confuse the beginning screenwriter who is trying to get his spcec script formatted properly. Overall, a good book though on formatting; to the point on all of definition and terms, with examples.
We've told screenwriters about this book for over a year now. It's an excellent primer for new screenwriters and an excellent reference point for the most established. There is also a nice little section on Stage Plays formatting.
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