Short description:

This book offers the unique perspective on crafting your screenplay from the eye of an editor. Special features include before and after examples from preproduction scripts to postproduction final cuts giving screenwriters an opportunity to understand how their screenplay is visualized in the editing room.

Long description:

This book offers a unique perspective on crafting your screenplay from an editor?s point-of-view. Special features include before and after examples from preproduction scripts to post production final cuts, giving screenwriters an opportunity to understand how their screenplay is visualized in post production.

By the time a script reaches the editing room, it has passed through many hands and undergone many changes. The producer, production designer, director, cinematographer, and actor have all influenced the process before it gets to the editor?s hands. Few scripts can withstand the careful scrutiny of the editing room. This book reveals how to develop a script that will retain its original vision and intent under the harsh light of the editing console. It provides insights that writers (as well as producers and directors) need and editors can provide for a safe journey from the printed page to the final release.

This book is ideal for aspiring and early career screenwriters, as well as filmmakers and established screenwriters who want to gain a better understanding of the editing process.

"I have nothing but praise for John Rosenberg?s The Final Rewrite which presents an extraordinary view of the filmmaking process illustrating the key creative contributions of writers and editors. This book is a must for anyone teaching screenwriting or production in the importance ofcollaboration, and corrects the common belief that directors are the sole authors of their work."

Eric N.Young, Professor and Production Chair, Chapman University

Table of Contents:

1. The Final Rewrite  2. Best Intentions and Excellent Fails 3. The Well of Coverage  4. The Scene and an Approach to Dailies  5. Another Approach  6. What Writers Know  7. What Editors Know  8. Tricks of the Editor?s Trade  9. The Essence of Time  10. The Filmic Moment  11. Aspects of Dialogue  12. Dialogue and Character Issues  13. When "Cut to" Isn?t Enough  14. Following the Line  15. Formula But Not Formulaic  16. The End is the Beginning  17. Hindsight is 20/20