Television and Screen Writing: From Concept to Contract

ISBN-13: 9780240803975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 432 str.

Richard A. Blum

Opis

This work aims to act as a practical guide for writing and marketing scripts for film and television. In addition to story, character, and dialogue development, this book also coaches readers on developing series concepts and writing effective script visualization, and how to incorporate it into television and film script formats. An entire section is devoted to marketing the finished product - how to analyze the market, how to prepare the script for submission and how to find an agent.

Recenzje

"Very thoughtful and user-friendly; a wonderful conprehensive text." - Nevada McPhearson, Nunez Community College

"There was so much information packed on each page I thought I was going to have to highlight the entire book!" - David Wesner, Austin Peay State University

Spis treści

Introduction; How To Create Marketable Premises For Motion Pictures And TV; How To Develop A Marketable Story; How To Write The Story; Dramatic Elements And Act Structure; How To Develop Credible And Castable Characters; How To Write Realistic Dialogue; Spec Screenplay Format; How To Write Effective Scenes In Screenplays; Script Revisions; Television Sitcom Format; How To Write Professional Scenes In Sitcoms; Animation, Interactive And New Media, And Nonfiction Entertainment; Television Drama Format; How To Write Professional Scenes In TV Drama; Soap, Talk Show, And Variety; How To Create New Television Series; How To Sell Your Motion Picture Screenplay; How To Sell Your Television Script; National And State Funding Sources; Where To Go Next; Annotated And Selected Bibliography

O autorze

Richard A. Blum