Author: Franklyn Ajaye
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Keywords: comedy, stand, art, insights, comic
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-11
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1879505541
ISBN-13: 9781879505544

If you want to build a stand-up comedy career, this book is a must read. If you want to write comedy, this book is a must read. If you simply enjoy comedy, well . . . this book is a must read. Part One offers essential advice about understanding the fundamentals of stand-up, studying other comedians, finding your own style, writing your material, working the live performance and appearing on television. Fascinating, candid, insightful interviews with today’s top comedians, who discuss at length why and how they do what they do, comprise Part Two, the bulk of the book. Interviews wi

Author: David Trottier
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Keywords: formatting, selling, script, writing, guide, bible, complete, screenwriter
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2005-08-20
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1879505843
ISBN-13: 9781879505841

This is six books in one. Book 1 - A screenwriting primer that provides a concise presentation of screenwriting basics. Book 2 - A workbook that walks the writer through the writing process, from nascent ideas through revisions. Book 3 - A formatting guide that presents correct formats for both screenplays and TV scripts. Book 4 - A spec writing guide that demonstrates today’s spec style through sample scenes and analysis. Book 5 - A sales and marketing guide that presents proven strategies to help you create a laser-sharp marketing plan. Book 6 - A resource guide that provides addresses

Author: Mark Litwak
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Keywords: industry, television, amp, film, contracts
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1879505460
ISBN-13: 9781879505469

Author: Walter Murch
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Keywords: revised, eye, blink
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1879505622
ISBN-13: 9781879505629

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch’s vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsider

Author: John Vorhau
Publisher: Silman-James Pre
Keywords: funny, toolbox, comic
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1879505215
ISBN-13: 9781879505216

Author: Linda Seger
Publisher: Silman-James Pr
Keywords: script, making
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1935247018
ISBN-13: 9781935247012

Making a good script great is more than just a matter of putting a good idea on paper. It requires the working and reworking of that idea. This book takes you through the whole screenwriting process - from initial concept through final rewrite - providing specific methods that will help you craft tighter, stronger, and more saleable scripts. While retaining the invaluable insights that placed its first two editions among the all - time most popular screenwriting books, this expanded, revised, and updated third edition adds rich and important new material on dialogue, cinematic images, and poin

Author: Haldane MacFall
Publisher: James Press
Keywords: whistler
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408697246
ISBN-13: 9781408697245

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.