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Breakfast with Sharks by Michael Lent
What They Didn't Teach You in Your Screenwriting CourseScreenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive and useful, Breakfast with Sharks is a real guide to navigating the murky waters of the Hollywood system.
Unlike most of the screenwriting books available, here's one that tells you what to do after you've finished your surefire-hit screenplay. Written from the perspective of Michael Lent, an in-the-trenches working screenwriter in Hollywood, this is a real-world look into the script-to-screen business as it is practiced today.
Breakfast with Sharks is filled with useful advice on everything from the ins and outs of moving to Los Angeles to understanding terms like spec, option, and assignment. Here you'll learn what to expect from agents and managers and who does what in the studio hierarchy. And most important, Breakfast with Sharks will help you nail your pitch so the studio exec can't say no.
Rounded out with a Q&A section and resource lists of script competitions, film festivals, trade associations, industry publications, and more, Breakfast with Sharks is chock-full of take this and use it right now information for screenwriters at any stage of their careers.
Lent, Michael: - Michael an intermedia artist working with drawing, text, video, and installation; exploring time-based and new media as a method of art making. I'm fascinated by formal elements like line and shape and their influence across media. Recently I've focused on colour, its abilities to transform and its repercussions on image and idea, its use as a medium, and the materials from which it is made. I am falling in love with my materials, which makes the physicality of my work at least as important as the conceptual elements that inform it. Colour itself has the power to transgress its limits by high
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| ISBN 13 | 9780609810439 |
| ISBN 10 | 060981043X |
| Title | Breakfast with Sharks |
| Author | Michael Lent |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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