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From comedy to drama, including fantasy, detective or disaster film, here is everything you need to know before starting to write a screenplay for the cinema.

A good scenario, how does it work? Where to start when you have an idea for a story? How to build your film so that it wins the support of the spectator but also of the professional reader to whom it will be subjected?

Drawing abundantly from the global cinematographic repertoire, Franck Haro offers you a journey through the different genres of cinema. This odyssey is an opportunity to dissect the art of building a story, creating intriguing characters and structuring a film.

The scriptwriting obeys strict rules which, if they must be perfectly known and mastered, are made to be diverted. With pedagogy and humor, the author brings up to date advice and methods to help you in writing and explains how to give your script every chance of being brought to the screen one day.