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Short Films: Writing the Screenplay
Author(s): Paul Nash (Author)
- Publisher: Creative Essentials
- Publication Date: 20 Oct. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1842435019
- ISBN-13: 9781842435014
Book Description
Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on story and structure, ideas generation, plot and pace, screenplay format, character motivation and goals, cliches and stereotypes, hooking the viewer, rewriting and much much more. The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of short screenplays.
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About the Author
PATRICK NASH is an award-winning writer of both short and feature length screenplays. A winner in Hollywood’s Page Awards, he has also won multiple Arts Council Awards, a Lion Award, a Colorado Film Award, the Shoreline Scripts Feature Competition and been a finalist and runner up in many competitions such as The BBC’s Tony Doyle Awards and the British Short Screenplay Competition. He has worked on short films and short film selection panels and juries with the Oscar accredited Foyle Film Festival and tutored short filmmakers at the Kultburo Film Lab in Moscow.
