This is an updated edition of the first book to help the beginning
writer enter the burgeoning world of short films from travelogues to
animated shorts.
William H. Phillips has extensively revised and updated to include three
new and recent original short screenplays and detailed descriptions and
photographs of two award-winning short films. Focusing on visualization,
dialogue, settings, characters, structure, and themes, Phillips provides
a guide to writing scripts for films of less than thirty minutes, from
gathering and organizing materials to writing, rewriting, and
formatting. Each new chapter includes new and revised ideas and
examples.
The glossary, bibliography, descriptions of short films, and the list of
distributors of short films and videotapes have also been extensively
rewritten and updated. Included are citations for short films and web
site addresses useful to the short script writer.