Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Personal development
  3. Self-help and advice

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
5.0(1)

Screenplay : The Foundations of Screenwriting

Hollywood's script guru teaches you how to write a screenplay in "the 'bible' of screenwriting" (The New York Times)—now celebrating forty years of screenwriting success!

Syd Field's books on the essential structure of emotionally satisfying screenplays have ignited lucrative careers in film and television since 1979. In this revised edition of his premiere guide, the underpinnings of successful onscreen narratives are revealed in clear and encouraging language that will remain wise and practical as long as audiences watch stories unfold visually—from hand-held devices to IMAX to virtual reality . . . and whatever comes next.

As the first person to articulate common structural elements unique to successful movies, celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher and bestselling author Syd Field has gifted us a classic text. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are fundamental guidelines to help all screenwriters—novices and Oscar-winners—hone their craft and sell their work.

In Screenplay, Syd Field can help you discover:

Why the first ten pages of every script are crucial to keeping professional readers' interest

How to visually "grab" these influential readers from page one, word one

Why structure and character are the basic components of all narrative screenplays

How to adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a saleable script

Tips on protecting your work—three ways to establish legal ownership of screenplays

Vital insights on writing authentic dialogue, crafting memorable characters, building strong yet flexible storylines (form, not formula), overcoming writer's block, and much more

Syd Field is revered as the original master of screenplay story structure, and this guide continues to be the industry's gold standard for learning the foundations of screenwriting.

Narrated by Eric Summerer. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2018 Syd Field (P)


Author:

  • Syd Field

Narrator:

  • Eric Michael Summerer

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 7 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Personal development
  • Self-help and advice
  • Language
  • Creative writing

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past : Norse Myths: The Saga of Hromund Greipsson, The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek, The Faroese Ballad of Nornagest, The Danish Ballad of Angelfyr and Helmer...

    Nora Kershaw

    book
  2. In Search of the Lost Chord

    Danny Goldberg

    audiobook
  3. Possible : How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

    William Ury

    audiobook
  4. Why Does the Screenwriter Cross the Road?: And Other Screenwriting Secrets :

    Joe Gilford

    audiobook
  5. Healthy You : Easy Weight Loss Guide

    Alona Goldman

    audiobook
  6. Being a Ballerina

    Gavin Larsen

    audiobook
  7. God’s Ghostwriters

    Candida Moss

    audiobook
  8. Home for the Holidays

    Sara Richardson

    audiobook
  9. The Nutshell Technique : Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting

    Jill Chamberlain

    audiobook
  10. The Occult Sylvia Plath : The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet

    Julia Gordon-Bramer

    audiobook
  11. Norse Mythology : Tales of the Gods, Sagas and Heroes

    Various Authors

    book
  12. The Beatles: The Biography

    Bob Spitz

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5