Vault Guide to Screenwriting Careers

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Vault Inc., January 2005. — 124 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-58131-370-3There is probably no profession more difficult to break into, and stay in, than that of a professional screenwriter. The jobs are few and far between, and you are always hopping from one to another with little - if any - assurance of stability. But if you have decided that this is the profession for you, that you have always wanted to be a voice in the world of film, then you owe it to yourself to take a pragmatic, almost scientific approach to what makes the wheels of the industry turn. This Vault guide brings you inside advice on the profession of screenwriting - taking a look at entry points into the profession, formal training programs that feed into the industry and more.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Scoop Screenwriting Basics: Format Screenwriting Basics: The Idea Screenwriting Basics: Character Screenwriting Basics: Structure Screenwriting Basics: Dialogue and Scene Getting Hired Film Schools/Formal Screenwriting Programs Alternate Strategies for Getting In On the Job Agents for Screenwriters Managers, Attorneys, and the Writer's Guild Producers and Studios Final Analysis About the Author