The Final Rewrite: How to View Your Screenplay with a Film Editor's Eye

This book offers the unique perspective on crafting your screenplay from the eye of an editor. Special features include before and after examples from preproduction scripts to postproduction final cuts giving screenwriters an opportunity to understand how their screenplay is visualized in the editing room.

Author: John Rosenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/31/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780367750596

About the Author

John Rosenberg, ACE, MFA, is a film editor, writer and professor. He teaches the aesthetics of motion picture editing at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, where he is also the Core Curriculum Coordinator for undergraduate production. He has also taught extensively throughout Asia. For over 30 years, Rosenberg has worked as a feature film editor, as well as a writer, producer, and production executive, for such companies as 20th Century Studios, New Line Cinema, Alpine Pictures, Orion Pictures, and Artisan. He is a member of American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Along with feature work, Rosenberg has written and edited a variety of reality-based TV projects, including for National Geographic. He is the author of the award-winning novel Tincture of Time, as well as the popular film book The Healthy Edit: Creative Editing Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, currently in its second edition and recently translated into Mandarin.