Lessons from the Pros
There are a lot of ways to do things right.
That’s why this chapter includes excerpts from the work of seven different scriptwriters. The idea is to show you not The One True Path, but a variety of styles and techniques and approaches.
Since today’s film industry is in a constant state of flux, with emphasis strongly on the “different” slant, the “different” touch, all these case studies are new with this edition, with two exceptions. In those two instances (Charles A. Palmer’s The Gullies and Jack Turley’s Terror on the Fortieth Floor), I felt that handling was so uniquely instructive that it would be doing you a disservice to leave them out.
Circled numbers in the margins of the script excerpts/materials that ...
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