The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them

by Bill Mesce

A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct--film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting were not yet de rigueur. Today the standard is the analytical approach, intended to demystify filmmaking and guarantee success (or at least minimize failure). The trouble with this method is that nobody knows how to do it--they just think they do--and films are made based on models of predictability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476668507
• ISBN13: 9781476668505
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher