Christopher Riley is an American screenwriter whose first film, After The Truth, a multiple-award-winning courtroom thriller, sparked international controversy when it was released in Germany in 1999. Other credits include 25 To Life, written for Touchstone Pictures, The Other White House, written for Sean Connery's Fountainbridge Films, Aces, written for Paramount Pictures and Emmy-winning producer Robert Cort, and an adaptation of the book Actual Innocence, for Mandalay Television Pictures and the Fox television network. He is a 14-year veteran of the Warner Bros. script department, and from 2005 through 2008, he served as director of the acclaimed Act One Writing Program in Hollywood. He executive produced the groundbreaking 2010 web series Bump+ and produced the 2013 feature film, Red Line. He teaches screenwriting at John Paul the Great Catholic University and serves on the Pediatric Central Institutional Review

Foreword by Antwone Fisher
Introduction
Chapter 1: Quick Start Guide
Chapter 2: Avoiding a Dozen Deadly Formatting Mistakes
Chapter 3: Spec Scripts vs. Production Drafts
Chapter 4: Single-Camera Film Format
Chapter 5: Improvisations by the Masters
Chapter 6: Shot Headings
Chapter 7: Direction
Chapter 8: Dialogue
Chapter 9: Transitions
Chapter 10: Punctuation
Chapter 11: The Evolution of a Script from First Draft to Production Draft
Chapter 12: Special Pages
Chapter 13: Animation Formats
Chapter 14: Multi-Camera Film Format
Chapter 15: Unleashing the Power of Final Draft
Chapter 16: Search and Destroy: The Power of Proofreading
Appendices A, B and C
Index