Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop Win/Mac [DVD]
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With Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop, you'll develop the screenwriting skills you need to be taken seriously by the Hollywood film industry!Learn how to create fantastic screenplays with the tutelage of a true master in the field!
With Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop, you'll develop the screenwriting skills you need to be taken seriously by the Hollywood film industry!Learn how to create fantastic screenplays with the tutelage of a true master in the field!
Features:
- In this complete video screenwriting course, you'll find out how to isolate the idea, structure it as a storyline, and write up a four-page treatment for it
- Understand the essence of good characters -- dramatic needs, character bios, and the tools of character
- Find out why it's important to stress the action in the first ten pages
- Determine plot points and set up the acts, establish the sub-dramatic context and Pinch I and Pinch II
- Redefine and re-establish theme, premise, and dramatic action, sharpen and focus your character, and set up the payoff for your storyline
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Nice Resource
I think this is a great resource for emerging writers. Very simple and effective tool. Josh Clark The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting
Rating: 
- Great Product
Excellent addition to the book.Adds a step-by-step process to the mechanics discussed in Field's handbook.In additions answers the question, "What the heck does Syd Field look like?"Professionally produced, well worth the money.
Rating: 
- NO WAY MAN
Syd Field is probably the fakest person in the industry!As far as I know he's never actually written a produced screenplay.I'm represented by a William Morris agent and Syd Field's lessons and references got me laughed at when I first approached getting an agent.
Buy The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier.He actually has his name on several products in the business and is also the book that my agent introduced me to.
Rating: - not helpful at all ! - save your time and money for other resources!
Let's summarize my thoughts and opinion, which hopefully may assist you in making your choice:
- this course is only about how to structure a screenplay in 3 acts. This process has been highly doubted by industry professionals, cause it is copied from the theater which has it's own limitations and style. The 3-act structure might be useful to analyse screenplays but not really to encourage a creative writing process. Also is it not suitable for anybody to write the happenings of each act down ... Read More
Rating: - GREAT SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP!!!
This is an excellent workshop that is worth the money.If you take the time to review and do the lessons, you will get better at screenwriting.I disagree with the one reviewer who got nothing out of the DVD.There are exercises that may seem simple at first but in fact offer subtle yet significant learning experiences.And I'm sure if Syd really wanted to write a story that he believed in, he would.He loves teaching obviously.
- Nice ResourceI think this is a great resource for emerging writers. Very simple and effective tool. Josh Clark The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting
- Great ProductExcellent addition to the book.Adds a step-by-step process to the mechanics discussed in Field's handbook.In additions answers the question, "What the heck does Syd Field look like?"Professionally produced, well worth the money.
- NO WAY MANSyd Field is probably the fakest person in the industry!As far as I know he's never actually written a produced screenplay.I'm represented by a William Morris agent and Syd Field's lessons and references got me laughed at when I first approached getting an agent.
Buy The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier.He actually has his name on several products in the business and is also the book that my agent introduced me to.
- not helpful at all ! - save your time and money for other resources!Let's summarize my thoughts and opinion, which hopefully may assist you in making your choice:
- this course is only about how to structure a screenplay in 3 acts. This process has been highly doubted by industry professionals, cause it is copied from the theater which has it's own limitations and style. The 3-act structure might be useful to analyse screenplays but not really to encourage a creative writing process. Also is it not suitable for anybody to write the happenings of each act down ... Read More
- GREAT SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP!!!This is an excellent workshop that is worth the money.If you take the time to review and do the lessons, you will get better at screenwriting.I disagree with the one reviewer who got nothing out of the DVD.There are exercises that may seem simple at first but in fact offer subtle yet significant learning experiences.And I'm sure if Syd really wanted to write a story that he believed in, he would.He loves teaching obviously.
