Cover of The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style

The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style

The Hollywood Standard describes in clear, vivid prose and hundreds of examples how to format every element of a screenplay or television script. A reference for everyone who writes for the screen, from the novice to the veteran, this is the dictionary of script format, with instructions for formatting everything from the simplest master scene heading to the most complex and challenging musical underwater dream sequence. This new edition includes a quick start guide, plus new chapters on avoiding a dozen deadly formatting mistakes, clarifying the difference between a spec script and production script, and mastering the vital art of proofreading. For the first time, readers will find instructions for formatting instant messages, text messages, email exchanges and caller ID.

Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great Shares screenwriting, writing, film
  2. The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay Shares writing, screenwriting, film
  3. Making a Good Script Great Shares writing, screenwriting, film
  4. Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read Shares writing, screenwriting, filmmaking

“People who read The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Psychology for Screenwriters
  2. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach
  3. The Screenwriter's Problem Solver: How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems
  4. The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. The 21st-Century Screenplay: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing Tomorrow's Films
  2. The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact And Fiction Into Film
  3. Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect
  4. Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless

“If it was the writing that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Screenwriter's Workbook
  2. Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters
  3. How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
  4. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Screenwriting for Dummies
  2. Screenplay: Writing the Picture
  3. How To Be A Little Sod
  4. Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay