The internet's best screenplay resource
Collections of screenplays online is hardly a new addition to the good ol' Interweb. Sometimes they are early drafts of known films, sometimes officially released versions, occasionally shooting scripts and, all too often, simple transcriptions of what appeared on screen - A practice which seems to largely defeat the point of reading a screenplay which is presumably to either a) to consider making an unproduced one or b) to analyze one that has been produced to see what changed or altered between page and screen.
In any case there are plenty of them around but just this week I stumbled across what must be one of the best resources for Screenplays yet sprung up on the web. Called simply '
MyPDFScripts' the site hosts an enormous array of screenplays in efficient and functional PDF format along with comprehensive searching and sorting. More than that, the site also presents as a central repository of news, information, interviews, reviews and articles about the art of the screenplay.
Their Mission Statement lays out the righteous intention of the site:
How do most veteran screenwriters respond when asked how someone can
become a better writer? Usually by stating the obvious: write often and
read a lot.
That said, we exist so that burgeoning screenwriters and filmmakers
everywhere have a free resource that provides them with the highest
quality screenplays available on the internet. Thats a bold statement,
you say? Well, thats because this site is about quality and not quantity.
We want screenplays that look like screenplays. Why? Because we write
screenplays. Because we study screenplays. Because we know what a
properly formatted screenplay should look like, and John Boys 352 page digitally converted script in 32 pt. Arial Bold isnt it. Thats why we only
provide PDF formatted scripts, because they represent the most accurate
representation of a tangible script, which we feel is crucial when
studying the craft of screenwriting where so much emphasis is placed on
structure and page count.
Every script available on this site has been double-checked to
ensure quality, stripped of extraneous non-essential information, and
file sizes have been reduced when possible.
MyPFD Scripts really is a fantastic resource and well worth setting as a daily visit destination and a regular read.
Posted at 09:56AM Feb 05, 2010
by Mike Jones in general |
