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Screenwriting & Screenplays: Internet Resources

Guide to help students get started writing their own scripts

Screenwriting How-To

A Guide to Scriptwriting - Written by Routledge, this guide covers the finer points of character creation and world-building and details how to write a script in eight steps.

Writers Guild Foundation Resource Center - Vetted by the Writers Guild, this site provides guidance on writing a personal statement, where to find scripts online, and more.

Writer Resources: Script Standards - The Black List provides script formatting standards for film, television, and theater to ensure that scripts can be compared on relatively even terms.

Screenwriting Guide - From Loyola Marymount University, this guide to screenwriting provides common vocabulary terms and definitions for developing the structure, format, and elements of your story.

Screenplays & Analysis

Internet Movie Script Database - While this database of scripts for feature films may look old, it is the premier resource in the field and features dozens of downloadable scripts.

Analyzing a Script - From the Association of American Cinematographers, this article walks readers through best practices for assessing a script as well as tips from cinematographers for analyzing scripts.

Film Analysis - Written by UNC Chapel Hill, this handout introduces film analysis and offers strategies and resources for approaching the topic.

Related Audiovisual Materials

Podcasts
Scriptnotes - This weekly podcast on screenwriting from John August and Craig Mazin makes the 20 most recent episodes freely available; the back catalog is restricted to subscribers.

Bulletproof Screenwriting - Focusing on all things screenwriting, this podcast interviews award-winning writers like Jordan Peele.

Draft-Zero Podcast - Released monthly, hosts Stuart Willis and Chad Fisher discuss various writing devices, why they're necessary, and how to employ them.

Script Apart - Hosted by a journalist, this podcast looks at scripts behind popular movies and changes that were made - or not made - during production.

Videos
Interviews: An Oral History of Television
- Although not exclusive to screenplays or scripts, this resource provides videos of interviews with important figures in the world of film and television.


Alternative UK poster for Parasite (art by Andrew Bannister).
College for Creative Studies website