Publisher's Synopsis
- Demonstrates how to analyse a screenplay through a seven-steps method: character, story elements, story world and setting, main plot and subplots, structure, screenwriting tools, and genre, tone and style.
- Offers step by step guidance, case study analysis and accompanying exercises that show readers how to conduct their own thorough analysis of a screenplay, and also how to apply these steps to their own writing.
- Draws on contemporary and classic screenplays throughout to demonstrate how to effectively analyse a script, allowing students and screenwriters to fully understand a script's elements, their functions, and the anatomy of a screenplay.
