Short Films: Writing the Screenplay
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Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on:

Story and structure
Ideas generation
Plot and pace
Screenplay format
Dos and don'ts
Eliciting emotion
Dialogue and subtext
Character design
Protagonists and antagonists
Character motivation and goals
Conflict, obstacles and stakes
Cliches and Stereotypes
Beginnings, middles and ends
Hooking the viewer
Screenplay competitions
Loglines, outlines and synopses
Rewriting and length
Practicalities and budgets

The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of writing short screenplays.

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PATRICK NASH is an award-winning writer of both short and feature length screenplays. A winner in Hollywood's Page Awards, he has also won multiple Arts Council Awards, a Lion Award, a Colorado Film Award, the Shoreline Scripts Feature Competition and been a finalist and runner up in many competitions such as The BBC's Tony Doyle Awards and the British Short Screenplay Competition. He has worked on short films and short film selection panels and juries with the Oscar accredited Foyle Film Festival and tutored short filmmakers at the Kultburo Film Lab in Moscow.

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'I would definitely recommend this book . . . (it is) a very thorough look at all aspects of being a writer of short scripts' - Writesofluid

'Straight talking tome bursting with practical advice' - Total Film

'A helpful book for anyone interested in screenwriting' - Tom Farr Reviews
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