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.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
I would definitely recommend this book . . . (it is) a very thorough look at all aspects of being a writer of short scripts -- Michelle Goode * Writesofluid *
Straight talking tome bursting with practical advice * Total Film *
A helpful book for anyone interested in screenwriting -- Tom Farr * Tom Farr Reviews *



Book Information
ISBN 9781842435014
Author Patrick Nash
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Creative Essentials
Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd