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Studio Manual:
 For $19, you can get the upper hand on the entertainment industry by knowing precisely how the people who read your scripts have been trained to evaluate them via our Confidential Studio Manual. Featuring the methods and formats of the Hollywood script-reading process, the Confidential Studio Manual is essential reading for any writer who wants to know what happens to a script once it’s sent off and anyone who’d like to have an insider’s perspective on film and television development.
The manual explains the criteria used to decide which scripts get made from assessing the structure and genre to the dialogue and plot. Including examples of coverage written on genuine scripts, some failed and some successful, as well as a glossary of terms commonly used by studio readers, it enables screenplay writers to know exactly who their first audience is and how they can get their script noticed.
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Recommended
reading:
In an industry where
every hazbeen manages to produce a book on how to succeed (kinda strange,
considering none of them did...). We recommend the following books to you.
Our reason for doing so? No, we get no cut from the writers, however, these
are the books most used by the industry insiders, so you might as well be
on the same page with them and not waste your time and money on a lot of
crap.
Linda Seger's: MAKING A GOOD SCRIPT GREAT & CREATING UNFORGETTABLE
CHARACTERS; Robert McKee's: STORY, Christopher Vogler's: THE WRITER'S JOURNEY,
as well as: Richard Stefanik's: THE MEGAHIT MOVIES.
Caveat emptor! A lot of these books are taken to be sacrosanct by
non-writers i.e. some executives and producers do actually believe that if
certain things are not delivered by certain pages, it is a "bad"
script. WRONG! The name of the story is to tell a compelling, visual story.
Use these books as guidelines. They will help you. There are no
"laws".
Script
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To read a selection of outstanding scripts:
For the best scripting software:
You would not believe what is selling and for how much!
For the daily industry blah, blah:
Some interesting industry statistics:
The average career expectancy of that executive who turned you down, is
about three years, then they go to law school, or into the Internet biz. or
move to Santa Fe to sell fake Native American trinkets (see the trend here!?).
Most "development executives" never have a script, book or
whatever, optioned, bought or made in their entire careers. What does that
tell you?
Entertaining articles, interviews & how-to
tips... By film makers for film makers.
Entertaining articles, interviews & how-to
tips... By writers, for writers.
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