Screenwriting: A Manual

by Jonathan Dawson

Covering all forms of screenwriting, this is a wide-ranging and accessbile guide to industry practices and principles. While providing a comprehensive and considered approach to presenting work, it allows for a great deal of creative freedom. With script extracts, original storyboards, and
narrative ideas for multimedia, the book offers concrete examples of successful and expressive screenwriting within the described production formats. It also contains exercises for generating and shaping the various elements of a script, an appendix on copyright and other legal issues, and a
glossary of terms.

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2000

About the author

Jonathan Dawson is co-ordinator of the Global Ecovillage Network and a key player at the Findhorn community, where he is based.

Reviews

[Iris Windmeijer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful book, clear explanations about how to script-write. This manual explains it very clear!