Writing the Short Film
Offers writers strategies for storytelling, visualization, characterization,
and the use of drama. Helps writers use tales, anecdotes, myth,
and events to begin a story, images and dialog to create believable
primary and secondary characters, and sound, location, and images
to convey the story, teaching them how to create a dramatic narrative
that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length)
and complete.
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Writing
Short Scripts
Author has some perceptive
comments about the structure of short film scripts, and hasincluded
the texts of the short film scripts that he writes about. |
The
Ultimate Filmmaker's Guide to Short Films: Making It Big in Shorts
Excerpt from a friend's review:
From script concept to film market, Adelman leads the reader
step-by-step through short filmmaking and includes top ten lists
of what to avoid and what to strive for. She packs the book with
lists of the pros and cons of doing bigger vs. smaller shorts,
doing everything yourself vs. hiring a big crew. She includes
budgets that illustrate where shorts have spent their money and
where they've saved, she advises the filmmaker on dealings with
SAG, DVD burning, press kits, the DV vs. film debate, and she
lays out a brilliant short film trajectory through the festival
circuit. |
