Posted on 11/19/2013 12:50:25 PM PST by EveningStar
Syd Field, whose books on screenwriting became set texts for many aspiring film writers, has died at the age of 77.
Famous for outlining the "three act" structure used by many screenplays, the author and lecturer died of haemolytic anaemia at his Beverly Hills home.
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three act format, is that boy meets girl/boy looses girl/boy gets girl, for example?
Exactly.
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RIP.
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