1st Edition
Reading and Writing a Screenplay Fiction, Documentary and New Media
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The screenplay as text
1. What constitutes a "good" screenplay?
2. The screenplay as text
3. Ideas, writing in stages and types of documents
4. What does screenwriting share with editing principles?
5. Structures
6. Point of view: telling a story from a certain perspective
7. The scene
8. The character
9. Writing sound
10. Writing for documentary
11. New media, new forms of writing: towards expanded screenwriting practices
12. Reading a screenplay: reading modes from analysis to writing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Isabelle Raynauld, PhD, is an award-winning screenwriter and director of fiction and documentary films. She is also Professor in Cinema at the University of Montreal, Canada, and Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She recently directed her first VR film Poetry in Motion and is currently in production with her feature documentary Music and the Brain, produced by Oscar-winning company Bunbury Films, in Montreal.
