Script Analysis

Demonstrates how to analyse a screenplay through a seven-steps method: character, story elements, story world and setting, main plot and subplots, structure, screenwriting tools, and genre, tone and style.

Offers step by step guidance, case study analysis and accompanying exercises that show readers how to conduct their own thorough analysis of a screenplay, and also how to apply these steps to their own writing.

Draws on contemporary and classic screenplays throughout to demonstrate how to effectively analyse a script, allowing students and screenwriters to fully understand a script’s elements, their functions, and the anatomy of a screenplay.