BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
Just In Time For The Holidays!
Best Prices Ever - will never be this low again (Okay, maybe *next* Black Friday)!
These prices good ONLY November 27, 28, 29 & 30... Sale ENDS November 30th at midnight.
For those of you who don't know - Black Friday is our shopping holiday. Day after Thanksgiving, when all of the Christmas sales begin. A retail store in the red can get back in the black in one day (which is why it's called Black Friday). Not wanting to be left out of the festivities, I figured I'd slash some prices for 4 days.
** ALL CLASSIC CLASSES **
*ALL* CLASSIC CLASS CDs
Why break up a set? Get all of the Classic Classes on CD for $50 - and save on postage, too!
SAVE $15 P&H!
SAVE $10 ON *ALREADY DISCOUNTED* PRICE!
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** CLASSIC CLASSES **
PRICE SLASHED: $8 Each!
IDEAS AND CREATIVITY - 80 minute CD packed with information. Tools to find ideas that are both personal *and* commercial. How to turn your personal story into a blockbuster - or find your personal story in a high concept idea. Brainstorming and being creative. Ideas and Creativity, regular price is $14.95, on sale for only $8.00 (plus $5 S&H)
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WRITING INDIES - Writing an Indie film? This class covers everything you need to know - from Central Locations to Confined Cameos. Using examples from SWINGERS, THE COOLER, STATION AGENT and others, this 80 minute CD is packed with information. How Indoe films challenge the audience (while mainstream films reassure the audience). Structures, using BOYS DON'T CRY, RUN LOLA RUN, HILARY & JACKIE, and others as example. Writing for a budget, writing for non-actors, getting the most production value out of your budget. Writing Indies - regularly sells for $14.95, on sale for $8.00 (plus $5 S&H)
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WRITING HORROR - 80 minute CD packed with information on writing horror scripts. From creating dread, loss of free will, fear of the unknown, classic horror (like THE OTHERS) vs. Stalk & Slash and Modern Horror. How to create a monster. What do ROSEMARY'S BABY, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE EXORCIST, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE OTHERS and OPEN WATER have in common? This class will tell you! All of the critical elements necessary to write a script that scares the pants off the audience. Much more! Was $14.95, now Writing Horror is $8.00 (plus $5 S&H)
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GUERRILLA MARKETING YOUR SCRIPT: NO AGENT? NO PROBLEM! Is a full length CD of my popular class on selling your script without an agent. Dozens of methods (at least thirty) to get your script to market on your own. These are all of the things that *I* have done to sell my scripts - so I know they work. The book store / Amazon price for this CD is $24.95, website price is $14.95, but now on sale for $8.00 (plus $5 S&H).
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WRITING THRILLERS - A 2 CD class. The first CD covers the essentials of a thriller screenplay, using examples from MINORITY REPORT, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, BOURNE IDENTITY, BREAKDOWN, THE LADY VANISHES, THE GAME and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR as primary examples - what do all of those films have in common? This CD will tell you! Part Two covers the 20 iconic scenes in Thriller films, and explains how suspense works using MINORITY REPORT as an example and how plot twists work using BOURNE SUPREMACY and other films. Writing Thrillers: Two CD Set is regularly $24.95, now on sale for $16.00 (plus $5 S&H)
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Postage = US $5, (Canada = $7, Foreign = $10)
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** NAKED SCREENWRITING **
The NAKED SCREENWRITING CLASS! The 2001 London Class on 8 CDs! Recorded *live* the morning after the Raindance Film Festival
wrapped. The big 2 Day Class on 8 CDs, plus a workbook, plus a bonus CD with 460 screenplay PDFs - all 3 BOURNE movies, all 3 MATRIX movies, all 4
Indiana Jones movies, plus all kinds of action and thriller and scripts from Hitchcock films. Plus - many of the 2008 Black List scripts - best unproduced scripts in town.
Yeah, I threw in some Charlie Kauffman and rom-com scripts and some National Lampoon Vacation movie scripts,
too. All for one reasonable price: SALE $80.00 (plus P&H)
THE TENTH DISK! - The Next 10 People To Order Will Get A SECOND Bonus Disk - The Classic Movie HIS GIRL FRIDAY on DVD! A Lesson In Dialogue And Banter. Cary Grant & Roz Russell Star In This Romantic Comedy... or the Hitchcock classic THE 39 STEPS! A lesson is suspense. Yours FREE!
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** ALL SEVENTEEN BLUE BOOKS **
"Bill Martell is one of Hollywood's best action-adventure writers, with 17 produced films and TV shows to his credit. His "little blue books" on the art of screenplay writing are legendary," Best Selling novelist Dale Brown ("Strike Force", "Flight Of The Old Dog").
ALL SEVENTEEN AVAILABLE BLUE BOOKS... Buy all 17 (available) Blue Books ON SALE FOR $80, get the Pitching Blue Book FREE!
Plus - there will be some sort of a bonus, not sure what yet. Worst case scenario: the CD of script PDFs and a copy of The Pirates Of The Caribbean Pirate's Code.. er, I mean, Guidelines.
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** OTHER PRODUCTS **
Not on sale, but you can still add them to your cart!
NEW CLASSES ON AUDIO CD
New Classes: Film Noir & Mystery and Structural Freaks and Theme & Voice.
BLUE BOOKS - each 48 pages
Order single Blue Books or in groups of 4 or 8.
SCRIPT SECRETS STORE
Top 10 Films About Underpants T Shirt: SALE $9.99
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This is the program that I use. Very simple - I still haven't read the instruction book. When I first bought the program, I had sold a script and got an assignment - and decided to go from my macro to an actual screenwriting program. I went into The Writer's Store and asked for the easiest to use program they had, and that was MM. I started writing that assignment without ever reading the instruction book! One key stroke does *everything*. Automatically formats your script, putting character names, scene headings, and action in the appropriate places. It also has a character name list, so you only have to hit the first letter of any character's name and it automatically fills it in. The other great thing (at least for me) is that Movie Magic also makes the most used programs for budgeting and scheduling films - and all a producer has to do is import your script to the budgeting program! Makes it easier if your script is actually being produced. If you're looking for a screenwriting program, this is the one I recommend.
Buy It!
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Edit your movie! Skip the producers and do it yourself - film your script and use this software for Apple computers to edit, color correct, filter, and use pluig ins for special effects. Create sophisticated animated titles and out put to a variety of different formats, including High Definition. Like a studio in a box!
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Okay, I'm the West Coast Editor, so I'm biased - but this is the best screenwriting magazine out there. Other magazines have articles *about* screenwriters, Scr(i)pt has articles *by* screenwriters.
You'll find articles written by Tony Peckham on writing his screenplay INVICTUS (directed by Clint Eastwood) and screenwriters Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman on writing THE MESSENGER and screenwriter Scott Burns on adapting THE INFORMANT! from true story to absurd comedy.
Plus interviews with Geoffrey Fletcher about PRECIOUS and Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens on adapting LOVELY BONES, plus and interview with the writers of a little film called SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Scr(i)pt also focuses on the actual writing rather than the deal making - this is a "how to" magazine, with Mystery Man on rewrites, Shelly Gabert on the writers of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER plus a piece on the job of the Showrunner, an interview with Nicholas Meyer (WRATH OF KHAN), and my article on writing for international audiences.
Real nuts-and-bolts stuff! Oh, and I have at least one article in every issue.
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ANIMAL TESTING: It is First Strike Productions' policy
never to test any
of it's products on animals... So if your dog buys any of these CDs he may be disappointed.
This is the program that I use. Very simple - I still haven't read the instruction book. When I first bought the program, I had sold a script and got an assignment - and decided to go from my macro to an actual screenwriting program. I went into The Writer's Store and asked for the easiest to use program they had, and that was MM. I started writing that assignment without ever reading the instruction book! One key stroke does *everything*. Automatically formats your script, putting character names, scene headings, and action in the appropriate places. It also has a character name list, so you only have to hit the first letter of any character's name and it automatically fills it in. The other great thing (at least for me) is that Movie Magic also makes the most used programs for budgeting and scheduling films - and all a producer has to do is import your script to the budgeting program! Makes it easier if your script is actually being produced. If you're looking for a screenwriting program, this is the one I recommend.
Buy It!
