Adrian Brunel: Film script. The technique of writing for the sreen

Altough this is intended mainly as an introductory course for the writer who wants to take up screenwriting, I have had other readers and students in mind. I have a hope, for instance, that it may also be useful to others who are already writing for films, just as I would myself find anything they wrote on the subject of use. Some will, I expect, disagree with many of my theories, but I shall welcome their reactions and in future editions, may be, I shall be able to benefit by their criticism. I have certainly borne in mind the many thousands of amateur film-makers who constitute a most valuable field for recruits to professional film-making. Those for whom I have not consciously written are that ever-increasing host of knowledgable filmgoers, many of them members of film societies, who are keen to learn how it is all done. There is, further, a fifth and rather unexpected group of serious readers who are not necessarily interested in the art of film production but are anxious to learn as much as they can about the making of films – bankers, insurance chiefs, accountants and others who are concerned with the financial side of film production.