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
Dos and don'ts
Eliciting
emotion
Dialogue and subtext
Character
design
Protagonists and antagonists
Character motivation and
goals
Conflict, obstacles and stakes
Clichés and
Stereotypes
Beginnings, middles and ends
Hooking the
viewer
Screenplay competitions
Loglines, outlines and
synopses
Rewriting and length
Practicalities and
budgets
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 writing
short screenplays.
PATRICK NASH is an award-winning writer of both short and
feature length screenplays. A winner in Hollywood's Page Awards,
runner up in the British Short Screenplay Competition and BBC's Tony
Doyle Awards among others, he has worked on short film selection
panels and juries with the Oscar accredited Foyle Film Festival, the
UK's premiere Academy-accredited film festival.
