The Hollywood Standard - Softcover

• The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style, 2nd Revised Edition

• Thousands of promising scripts never get a fair read from Hollywood because their format is wrong. Poor formatting is the mark of an amateur and in the ultra-competitive world of screenwriting, the wrong first impression can kill your dreams.

• Intended to be kept at a screenwriter’s fingertips, The Hollywood Standard gives you what even the best script software can’t: clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples to take the guesswork out of a multitude of formatting questions that perplex even seasoned screenwriters.

• Contents include:

  • When a new scene heading is appropriate and when it isn’t
  • How to control pace with formatting
  • How to make a script page visually inviting to the reader
  • What to capitalize and why
  • How to get into and out of a POV shot
  • What can and can’t be included in an establishing shot
  • And much more

Pages: 208

Published: July 2009

Size (cm):

22 x 28 x 1.5

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