Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches

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Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches (2nd ed.)

This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen. With a renewed focus on theme and structure, the book is an essential guide for writers, script developers and teachers to help develop ideas into rich dynamic projects, and craft compelling, resonating screenplays. Combining creative tools and approaches with critical and contextual underpinnings, the book is ideal for screenwriting students who are looking to expand their skills and reflect on practices to add greater depth to their scripts. It will also inspire experienced writers and developers to find fresh ways of working and consider how new technology is affecting storytelling voices. Comprehensive and engaging, this book considers key narrative questions of today and offers a range of exercises to address them. Integrating creative guidance with rigorous scholarship, this is the perfect companion for undergraduate students taking courses in screenwriting. Encouraging and pragmatic, it will provide a wealth of inspiration for those wishing to work in the industry or deepen their study of the practice

Smartphone Screenwriting: creativity, technology, and screenplays-on-the-go

From the typewriter to the computer, with good old pen and paper in between, screenwriters have experienced a_ shift in how they physically write their screenplays. Along w1th this shift has come a plethora of free and paid-for so~ware packages to help with writing a scre~nplay, ,s~ch as Fmal . . Draft, Celtx, and ScriptSmart. The 1dea of Ill have to _wnte 1t all again' has changed to an idea of 'I can erase, ~e-wnte and copy and paste in seconds', and even the formattmg take c~re of itself Screenwriters today are thus able to s~end more ~1me writing and less time typing. The market now 1s awash w1th apps for screenwriters, from Scrivener to Slugline to Plotbot to StorySkeleton, and although they do not teach the craft of screenwriting per se, they do provide users with some of the tools needed to plan and write a screenplay