Short Films: Writing the Screenplay

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, edited cv format, character motivation and goals, cliches and stereotypes, hooking the viewer, rewriting and much much more. 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 short screenplays.