Screenwriting : a manual / Jonathan Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture authorship.

Television authorship.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

South Melbourne ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Screenwriting: A Manual is a wide-ranging and accessible guide to industry practices and principles. Covering all forms of screenwriting and providing a comprehensive and considered approach to presenting work, it also allows for maximum creative freedom. Documentaries, television series, feature films, advertising, and children's programming, as well as animation and multimedia, are among the genres treated in detail.

With script extracts, original storyboards, and narrative ideas for multimedia, this book offers concrete examples of successful and expressive screenwriting within the described production formats. Screenwriting also contains exercises for generating and shaping the various elements of a script, an appendix containing information about copyright and other legal issues, and a glossary of terms.

Students of film, radio and television, and multimedia will find this an essential resource for getting the most out of their imaginative ideas in this exciting and challenging field.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Getting Ideas 5

Chapter 2 How to Begin Your Script 12

Chapter 3 Behind the Screens 19

Chapter 4 Commercials, Corporates and Infotainment 26

Chapter 5 The Documentary 33

Chapter 6 Shorts, Soaps and Sitcoms 41

Chapter 7 A Short Course in Comedy 47

Chapter 8 The Pitch 59

Chapter 9 Creating Characters 80

Chapter 10 The Plot Thickens 95

Chapter 11 Writing Series TV 114

Chapter 12 Writing Feature Films and Television Movies 138

Chapter 13 Children's Television and Film 159

Chapter 14 Animation: Imaginary Lives 173

Chapter 15 Scripting Multimedia 192

Appendix 1 Legals 210

Appendix 2 Video Games: A Very Short History 215

Appendix 3 Gallipoli 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195508327

OCLC:

44695167