Writing for Visual Media provides writers with an understanding of the nature of visual writing behind all visual media. Such writing is vital for directors, actors, and producers to communicate content to audiences. Friedmann provides an extended investigation into dramatic theory and how entertainment narrative works, illustrated by examples and detailed analysis of scenes, scripts, techniques, and storylines. This new edition has a finger on the pulse of the rapidly evolving media ecosystem a...
Packed with gems of wisdom from the current 'masters of light’, this collection of conversations with twenty leading contemporary cinematographers provides invaluable insight into the art and craft of cinematography. Jacqueline Frost’s interviews provide unprecedented insight into the role as cinematographers discuss selecting projects, the conceptual and creative thinking that goes into devising a visual strategy, working with the script, collaborating with leading directors such as Martin Sco...
The complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession.'The smartest, cruellest, funniest show on television.' Irish Times'The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is.' Guardian'Miraculously funny yet mind-blowingly intense.' Empire** Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy. **With an exclusive introduction from Lucy Prebble. 'Love'. You're coming for me with love?In the wake of an ambush by his rebellious s...
The Screenwriter's Troubleshooter (With the Story-Type Method, #2)
by Emmanuel Oberg
Participatory Worlds (Routledge Advances in Transmedia Studies)
by José Blázquez
This book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management that allow audience members to contribute canonically to the expansion of storyworlds, blurring the line between the traditional roles of consumers and producers. Shifting discussions of participatory culture and cross-media production and consumption practices to more independent media contexts, the book explores the limits, borders and boundaries of partici...
Robert De Niro at Work (Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting)
by Adam Ganz and Steven Price
Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro works with a screenplay, this book will re-examine the relationship between actor and text. This book considers the screenplay as above all a working document and a material object, present at every stage of the filmmaking process. The working sc...
Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever growing and extremely dedicated fan base. Now fans can enjoy a plethora of their favorite memorable quotes and wisest words spoken throughout the series from the first episode to the most recent season starring Matt Smith. Each chapter focuses on a reoccurring theme or subject from the series.
Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Practical and accessible, the book presents a step-by-step guide focusing on the key elements of the process. Incorporating both the history of TV comedy as well as its current evolving state in this age of the dramedy and an ever-increasing variety of broadcast and streaming platforms, the book will serve as a guide for the fledgling sitcom scrib...
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Script Book (Buffy the Vampire Slayer S.)
by Gertrude Pocket and G Pocket
This volume contains six scripts from the second season of the television programme "Buffy the Vampire Slayer": "When She Was Bad", "Some Assembly Required", "School Hard", "Inca Mummy Girl", "Reptile Boy" and "Halloween". These scripts are the shooting drafts, and contain production notes, cut dialogue and different scenes.
"Queer as Folk" is the story of three gay guys, their families and friends. The exploits of Stuart, Vince and Nathan covered many of the thornier problems in life, such as cleaning up your loft apartment after a wild party, how you should react when your mum wants to come clubbing with you, and the perils of being the ultimate social outcast - a Doctor Who fan. This title contains the complete unexpurgated scripts from the first series, and includes scenes that were never transmitted.
An encyclopedic behind-the-scenes look for fans of The Andy Griffith Show. In October 1960, The Andy Griffith Show began its eight-year reign as one of the top-ten television shows in the country. Now, more than 60 years later, the original 249 episodes still remain among the most frequently watched television shows—and its stars, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, and of course, Andy Griffith, live on in popular culture. Neal Brower, longtime superfan and show expert, has been writing and eve...
The old screenwriting motto is, “Work on your script, and the jobs will come.” This is false.A great script is only as good as the effort you put into your career, but there is little information for the aspiring screenwriter about how to break in. Even those who study TV or film in college are taught to simply “get a production assistant job.” But then what? And how do you get that job to begin with?Breaking into TV Writing contains all the crucial information left out of most screenwriting boo...
25% discount offer - use code CE25 at checkout 'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' - William Boyd in Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do y...
Mastering the Pitch
Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years’ experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects, Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process. Readers will gain valuable insights into how the Hollywood system operates, improve their professional pitching skills and gain a competitive edge in getting their ideas from concept to greenlight. This book covers:how projects are packaged and developed before a pitchhow a pitc...
"This does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder" Radio Times"A knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare." The GuardianIt’s the 1590s. William Shakespeare – brought to life on screen by the inimitable David Mitchell – is at the start of his career. But no one is taking him seriously. In London, he is mercilessly mocked by his rivals and at home in Stratford he is belittled by his sullen teenage daughter. Yet he is determined to find an ending for his...
The Thick of It
by Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Ian Martin, and Tony Roche
The Thick of It is one of the funniest and most biting TV comedies around today -- a modern-day Yes, Minister for New Labour. A satire on the inner workings of modern politics, it's brim-full of spin-doctoring, back-stabbing, and policy-making on the hoof. And, according to insiders, it's frighteningly close to the truth. This exclusive collection of razor-sharp scripts and extras is a treat for fans of this award-winning show.
Broadcast Writing (Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting)
by Ken Dancyger
Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. Through the use of numerous original examples, the reader learns to shape ideas into well-developed scripts. It addresses the challenges of documentary and dramatic writing for TV and radio, and provides examples for most of the different writing genres.
This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a “creative” (the film industry term commonly used to refer to members of the key creative team – writer, director or producer) by connecting the transdisciplinary academic fields of screenwriting, film studies and cognitive psychology and neuroscience. It stands apart from other screenwriting “how to” books by applying contemporary scientific research about creativity to the craft o...
The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist's eye for detail and the born raconteur's sense of pace. Rod Serling, the show's originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic director, knew how much burden he could place on h...
Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)
This book makes fascinating connections between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation The discussions in this book will have much to add to debates on the emotional and cognitive effects of television dramas on their audiences, and thus larger questions of what should or should not be represented on screen The chapters explore a number of questions including: - How do the particularities of...