I Got You Covered is an easy, fun, and comprehensible guide to script notes, critiques, and written coverage for screenplays, teleplays, short films, and series. Whether you're an intern, assistant, producer, development executive, literary agent, or a writer who wants to know what will make your screenplay stand out to competitions, agents, and execs, you'll find everything you need to get started as a "reader" in this book:
¿ How to breakdown a screenplay.
¿ How to spot the strengths and weaknesses of a script.
¿ How to give notes in a tactful, motivating, and inspiring way.
¿ How to remain objective rather than subjective.
¿ What competitions, executives, agents, and networks look for.
¿ How to get your first job as a script reader.Don't Just Tell the StorySell the MovieFilmmaking is a business and getting a project greenlit is the key to success. This fundamental guide to story analysis gives you a set of tools that will help jumpstart your career in the entertainment industry.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-7331502-3-1 (9781733150231)
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Beverly Neufeld received her MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, went on to win numerous awards, started reading for competitions, coverage services, agencies, networks, and producers, and she also did private consulting. She was hired as a development executive and then as the Director of Development for Juntobox Films under Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang. After that she became a professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in their Writing Division, teaching script coverage and screenwriting classes and she also teaches online coverage classes.She has been a script consultant for Slamdance Films, often speaking at their awards ceremonies and on panels for emerging screenwriters. She has also penned the letter they send out to finalists on how to capitalize on their momentum. Her coverage has caused many writers to seek her out repeatedly, and to hire her for rewrite assignments. On her own, Neufeld has also been hired on multiple scripts for rewrite assignments and has cowritten the film Action! Action!
