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Summary: On the L.A.Times Book Review Hollywood Bestsellers List!
Review: I found it on the bestsellers list and it's well deserved for Argentini's indispensable volume! How did screenwriters ever get along without it? Cheers!
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Summary: Packed infor beyond formatting
Review: In a cover resembling the classic Stunk and White's Elements of Style, Paul's little gold book lives up to its predecessor. Packing its lean pages with up-to-date formatting information, it also adds tidbits like, how to submit a screenplay, bind a manuscript, or register your screenplay. You can read it cover to cover or thumb through its alphabetized pages for a quick fix to your problem. As the cover states it indeed is "The Essentail Manual for Writers of Screenplays." At a bargain price, it is worth keeping with your Strunk and White. It's the best I've read. Playwrites also take note. Elements of Style for Screenwriters includes a special section for play scribes.
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Summary: Great book for formatting your screenplay
Review: In the grand tradition of Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE, Paul Argentini presents an essential reference masterpiece in the art of clear and concise principles of screenplay formatting, structure and style for screenwriters. Argentini explains how to design and format manuscripts to impress any film school professor, story editor, agent, producer or studio executive. No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help screenwriters more than this persistant volume. Many professional screenwriters will advise keeping a copy of this book at arms reach. Paul Argentini is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter and resides in Great Barrington, Massachussetts.
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Summary: Information all screenwriters need.
Review: It must look like a screenplay; read like a screenplay; be a screenplay to have it seriously considered a screenplay--no matter how great the story. This book will show you the latest protocol for writing the selling script. All writers of screenplays need the elements of screenwriting style readily available. A copy within reach will be a boon! The same goes for a stage play. Playwrights will find correct formatting included in a special section. With the availability of this book, I now can use my time to get back to fishing instead of answering e-mail because everything that needs to be known about screenwriting style is within these pages.
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Summary: Writing
Review: Maybe I'm crazy, but I tend not to like writing reference books that are terribly written.
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Summary: Easy to understand..
Review: Paul Argentini's Elements of Style covers the bulk of the details required for those who want to make up a decent screenplay consistent with accepted formatting standards.. It also covers stage plays. The creation of a screenplay template for word processors is discussed, but few details are given on how to do this. But - to be fair - this is different from version and vendor, so it's a minor point. Creating macros in Word 95 and 2000, for example, is a different procedure for each one, the 20000 version being less than obvious.For the more ambitious student, I would recommend getting the Cole and Haag book. It's more comprehensive, explains the general background to screenplays, and has many examples of real screenplays, with worked exercises.
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Summary: I will always keep this book within arms' reach!
Review: So easy to understand. Comprehensive and clear. Paul Argentini understands the world of screenwriting. Thank you for writing this much needed book!
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Summary: A Review from ScreenStyle.com - The Screenwriters Store
Review: Thank you thank you thank you !!! for Paul Argentini's Elements of Style! So comprehensive and so helpful. I'm a new screenwriter and that book is saving my life!!
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Summary: This book is a lifesaver!
Review: Thank you thank you thank you !!! for Paul Argentini's Elements of Style! So comprehensive and so helpful. I'm a new screenwriter and that book is saving my life!!
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Summary: Questions answered, BUT...
Review: The book give an informative description of all of the screenwriter's neccecesities for writing a screenplay format wise, however it does not suggest that the book is made for production screenplay, not spec scripts. There is mention of spec scripts occasionaly, but this would confuse the beginning screenwriter who is trying to get his spcec script formatted properly. Overall, a good book though on formatting; to the point on all of definition and terms, with examples.
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