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

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

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Intended to be kept at a screenwriter's fingertips, The Hollywood Standard provides what even the best script software can't: clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples to take the guesswork out of a multitude of formatting questions that perplex even seasoned screenwriters.

Contents include:

• When a new scene heading is appropriate and when it isn't
• How to format shot headings, dialogue, direction and transitions
• How to control pace with formatting
• How to make a script page visually inviting to the reader
• What to capitalise and why
• How to get into and out of a POV shot
• How to handle text messages and Zoom meetings
• How Hollywood's most innovative screenwriters are pushing the boundaries of format
• How format for animation differs from live action formats

Simply put, Riley knows more about script format than anyone in Hollywood and shares it all in this indispensable guide.

Author Bio

Christopher Riley is an American screenwriter whose first film, After The Truth, a multiple-award-winning courtroom thriller, sparked international controversy when it was released in Germany in 1999. Other credits include 25 To Life, written for Touchstone Pictures, The Other White House, written for Sean Connery's Fountainbridge Films, Aces, written for Paramount Pictures and Emmy-winning producer Robert Cort, and an adaptation of the book Actual Innocence, for Mandalay Television Pictures and the Fox television network. He is a 14-year veteran of the Warner Bros. script department, and from 2005 through 2008, he served as director of the acclaimed Act One Writing Program in Hollywood. He executive produced the groundbreaking 2010 web series Bump+ and produced the 2013 feature film, Red Line. He teaches screenwriting at John Paul the Great Catholic University and serves on the Pediatric Central Institutional Review