Writing for Visual Media

ISBN-13: 9780367236250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 398 str.

Anthony Friedmann

Opis

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. This new edition has a finger on the pulse of the rapidly evolving media ecosystem and explains it in the context of writing and creating content.

Spis treści

Introduction, Chapter 1: Describing One Medium through Another, Chapter 2: Describing Sight and Sound, Chapter 3: A Seven-Step Method for Developing a Creative Concept, Chapter 4: The Stages of Script Development, Chapter 5: Ads and PSAs: Copywriting for Visual Media, Chapter 6: Corporate Communications: Selling, Training, and Promoting, Chapter 7: Documentary and Nonfiction Narrative, Chapter 8: Storytelling, Chapter 9: Visual Storytelling: Dramatic Structure and Form, Chapter 10: Writing Techniques for Long-Form Scripts, Chapter 11: Television Series, Sitcoms, and Soaps, Chapter 12: Writing for Interactive Communications and Interactive Design, Chapter 13: Writing for Video Games, Chapter 14: Writing for Mobile Media Platforms, Chapter 15: You Can Get Paid to Do This

O autorze

Anthony Friedmann has an M.A. in English from Harvard University and a B.A. and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and trained as a filmmaker at the London School of Film Technique. After twenty-one years of writing, producing, and directing film and video, he has taught video production, interactive multimedia, and scriptwriting at various colleges and universities. He continues to do technical writing, write for corporate clients, and develop independent projects for film and publishing. His work ranges from feature films to corporate video for English, American, and French clients. Bartleby, which he wrote and directed, won Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 1971. He is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.