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    Summary of Syd Field's Screenplay
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    Summary of Syd Field's Screenplay

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    #1 The author made a picture of what would happen if a pretty stenographer entered your office. She took off her gloves, opened her purse, and dumped it out on the table. She had two dimes and a nickel, and a cardboard match box. She left the nickel on the desk, put the two dimes back into her purse, and took her black gloves to the stove.

    #2 F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was a novelist who wrote screenplays for movies. He was always searching for the answer to what made a good screenplay. He was never sure what a screenplay was, and he wondered whether he was doing it right.

    #3 The opening section of Fitzgerald’s novel, which focuses on how Rosemary saw the Divers, is more cinematic than novelistic. It’s a great cinematic opening, setting up the characters as others see them, like an establishing shot.

    #4 A screenplay is not a novel, a play, or a diagram. It is a story told with pictures, in dialogue and description, and placed within the context of dramatic structure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateAug 20, 2022
    ISBN9798350015812
    Summary of Syd Field's Screenplay
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      Insights on Syd Field's Screenplay

      Contents

      Insights from Chapter 1

      Insights from Chapter 2

      Insights from Chapter 3

      Insights from Chapter 4

      Insights from Chapter 5

      Insights from Chapter 6

      Insights from Chapter 7

      Insights from Chapter 8

      Insights from Chapter 9

      Insights from Chapter 10

      Insights from Chapter 11

      Insights from Chapter 12

      Insights from Chapter 13

      Insights from Chapter 14

      Insights from Chapter 15

      Insights from Chapter 16

      Insights from Chapter 17

      Insights from Chapter 18

      Insights from Chapter 19

      Insights from Chapter 1

      #1

      The author made a picture of what would happen if a pretty stenographer entered your office. She took off her gloves, opened her purse, and dumped it out on the table. She had two dimes and a nickel, and a cardboard match box. She left the nickel on the desk, put the two dimes back into her purse, and took her black gloves to the stove.

      #2

      F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was a novelist who wrote screenplays for movies. He was always searching for the answer to what made a good screenplay. He was never sure what a screenplay was, and he wondered whether he was doing it right.

      #3

      The opening section of Fitzgerald’s novel, which focuses on how Rosemary saw the Divers, is more cinematic than novelistic. It’s a great cinematic opening, setting up the characters as others see them, like an establishing shot.

      #4

      A screenplay is not a novel, a play, or a diagram. It is a story told with pictures, in dialogue and description, and placed within the context of dramatic structure.

      #5

      The principle of structure is the relationship between the parts and the whole. The parts are the action, characters, conflicts, scenes, sequences, dialogue, action, Acts I, II, and III, incidents, episodes, events, music, locations, etc. The whole is the story.

      #6

      The beginning of a screenplay is called Act I. It is a unit of dramatic action that is approximately twenty or thirty pages long and is held together with the dramatic context known as the Set-Up. The screenwriter establishes character, launches the dramatic premise, and creates the relationships between the main character and the other characters who inhabit the landscape of his or her world.

      #7

      The first ten pages of a screenplay are the most important. They must draw the reader in and keep them hooked. The dramatic premise is what the screenplay is about, and it provides the dramatic

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