Screen-Teen Writers

by Christina Hamlett

Book Overview

Can teens be taught to write scripts for the movies? Absolutely This "for teens only" informative theatre text demonstrates how any student can create a salable screenplay idea or script. After telling the reader how to sell their work in Hollywood, this workbook gives nuts and bolts instruction in all basic writing principles for visual media. The activity assignments provided with every chapter may be used in a full classroom or for independent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566080789
• ISBN13: 9781566080781
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

WHAT CAN I SAY!

I fully endorse all the previous reviews of this book. ScreenteenWriters is excellently structured, full of everything a budding playwright would need to know (and not only a budding writer!) This book is extremely user friendly, and simple in its explanations of complex concepts. Definitely, A MUST BUY. Thank you, Christina Hamlett!

Like a Fairytale Mentor!

This book is like the mentor every screenwriter longs to have, but rarely has the good luck to find. The idea of writing a screenplay is glamorous, yes, but none to easy to accomplish. I've been working as a screenwriter since my 20s, but I sure wish this book had been around when I first dreamed of writing movies. Christian Hamlett's book can tell you how to get started and how to successfully reach that longed-for goal, the final fade out. What a boon to young screenwriters just getting started! Christina Hamlett's book offers heaps of practical advice, and the interviews she includes provide the reader with additional voices of wisdom. I intend to recommend it to any teenager interested in creating a screenplay.

Must read for all aspiring screenwriters!

This book fills an important niche for the ever increasing teen film market. It does so, however, with instructions and lessions that are valuable for all in the industry and for anyone who thinks an Academy Award winning screenplay is just a blank sheet of paper away. The author not only provides a very comprehensive guide to screenwriting, but also tests the motivation of the young writers and their fidelity to their craft.

Budding William Goldmans Start Here!

Now, here's a book I wish I'd had when starting out as a screenwriter! It covers everything from plot points to page counts in an incredibly imformative and entertaining style, geared directly at younger writers.The book also includes tips from writers around the world - essential if you want to break free to the Hollywood mold and forge a style of your own.So, next time you watch a movie and think to yourself, "I could do better than that!" - turn to this book, and you'll do much better!A must buy!!

Not Just For Teens!

SCREEN TEEN WRITERS may be marketed for the aspiring teen writer, but there is valuable information in this book that certainly can be used by anyone interested in writing a film/TV script. Hamlett asks questions that all writers should answer, which helps to focus and sharpen one's creative efforts. More importantly, she doesn't "talk down" and most emerging writers should find her words and the interviews engaging and inspiring!!! Well-written, concise, and very informative!