- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Adams Media (Jan 18 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 144050640X
- ISBN-13: 978-1440506406
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #698,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Set your sights on a screenwriting career--and you know you're not in Kansas anymore. With some 100,000 original screenplays vying to be among the 7,000 few made into movies every year, craft is key and competition is fierce. Enter the Wizard: Award-winning screenwriter and playwright and acclaimed writing instructor Richard Krevolin, who shows you the way to turn your good ideas into great stories, and your great stories into compelling scripts.
With the writer's gift for storytelling and the professor's gift for teaching, Krevolin gives you the brains, heart, and courage you need to make it in the Emerald City of Hollywood--one yellow brick at a time.
About the Author
Richard Krevolin is a veteran teacher, author, and storyteller. A graduate of Yale University, Professor K holds master's degrees from both UCLA and USC. He's taught writing classes at USC Cinema/TV School as well as UCLA Film School, Ithaca, and Pepperdine. His students have sold film scripts and TV shows to Universal, Sony-Tri-Star, Paramount, Dreamworks SKG, and others.
Tom DeSanto is the powerhouse producer of such blockbusters as Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men, X2, and Apt Pupil.
About the Foreword Writer
Jeff Arch is an acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter whose screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle earned him Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations.
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Screenwriting in the Land of Oz is your Yellow Brick Road back to your keyboard., Jan 7 2012
By Michael C. Dougherty - Published on Amazon.com
I picked up Screenwriting in the Land of Oz book during the Christmas holiday this year. I devoured it like a tornado hitting Kansas picking up my creative spark and carrying it away to a place of wonder.I had, without knowing Screenwriting in the Land of Oz contained an entire section on it, written/produced/directed a film from my first screenplay and have been a hard time finishing my second. There were a lot of life lessons learned while making that, but I was feeling really scared to come back to the page. Screenwriting in the Land of Oz, now dog eared with love,has lifted the house in the land of gray and dropped it heavily in the emerald green.
I feel out of the woods, out of the dark, out of the night, and into the sun and into the light. Screenwriting in the Land of Oz helped me find my way back to my keyboard with joy.
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Help along the way. . ., April 3 2011
By Barn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Screenwriting in The Land of Oz: The Wizard on Writing, Living, and Making It In Hollywood (Paperback)
I began this book with the intention of simply looking at the main headings and picking up a few pointers. That didn't work.I ended up reading the whole thing.
Since I did, I feel as though I should tell you, don't be put off by the "Oz" thing. My childhood memories of The Wizard of Oz are disconcerting. But, like a lot of things that seem scary in childhood, this one is worth revisiting. It turns out, of course, that the reason it freaked me out in the first place was that a lot of things were done correctly in both the movie production and the book.
The author helps identify both (quoted text from the book is used throughout) and does a good job of showing why the book and movie were so effective, all the while using the Oz story to structure his lessons for us on screenwriting.
The bulk of what he shares is on screenwriting itself, but the thing that makes me recommend this book is that it also points toward how to live while you're being a writer.
Pointers throughout encourage gut-checks about why we write, what to expect from writing, how to think about art vs. business--in other words, the stuff that helps you stay sane and keep writing.
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What a great read!, Mar 11 2011
By Middle GA Ann - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Screenwriting in The Land of Oz: The Wizard on Writing, Living, and Making It In Hollywood (Paperback)
The book is simply a great read and really entertaining. In addition, the mechanics of writing and promoting a screenplay is laid out in a streamlined, easy to understand process. What impressed me the most was the compassion Mr. Krevolin has for aspiring writers. He states the obvious about misconceptions of a new writer to how they should aproach selling their screenplay. Most importantly he cautions the writer to take their time and examine their work. I appreciated the encouragement to write with the real warnings of how hard it is for your work to be sold. Lastly, Mr. Krevolin's mastery of writing is simply amazing. He wove a theme into the entire book which blew me away. This was such an inspiration.
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