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| Author | : Anthony Friedmann |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 764 |
| Release | : 2014-04-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1317964810 |
This updated edition of Writing for Visual Media will enable you to understand the nature of visual writing that lies behind the content of all visual media. This unique kind of writing must communicate to audiences through content producers, since audiences don’t read the script. Most media content provides a solution to a communication problem, which the writer must learn to analyze and solve before writing the script. The Fourth Edition strengthens the method for creating content and writing in the correct language and established format for each visual medium, including commercial communication such as ads and PSAs, corporate communications, and training. An extended investigation into dramatic theory and how entertainment narrative works is illustrated by examples and detailed analysis of scenes, scripts and storylines, designed to save writers from typical pitfalls and releasing your creative powers of invention. Writing for Visual Media will help you to develop an improved foundation for understanding interactive media and writing for non-linear content, while gaining the tools to effectively connect with your audience like a professional. Purchase of this book includes access to the companion website, which provides: Sample scripts and video clips of those produced scripts An interactive glossary of camera shots, movements, and transitions Storyboards, scripts, screenplays, and links to industry resource Instructor materials such as PowerPoint lecture slides, a sample syllabus, and a test bank. Visit the site at www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415815857
| Author | : Anthony Friedmann |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1136028013 |
Writing for Visual Media looks at the fundamental problems a writer faces in learning to create content for media that is to be seen rather than read. It takes you from basic concepts to practice through a seven-step method that helps you identify a communications problem, think it through, and find a resolution before beginning to write. Through successive exercises, Writing for Visual Media helps you acquire the basic skills and confidence you need to write effective films, corporate and training videos, documentaries, web sites, PSAs, TV shows, nonlinear media, and other types of visual narratives. You'll explore your visual imagination and try out your powers of invention. The companion web site enriches the content of the printed book with video, audio, and sample scripts. It includes scripts and the video produced from them; visual demonstrations of concepts; and an interactive, illustrated glossary of terms and concepts. Please visit www.focalpress.com/cw/friedmann-9780240812359 click on the Interactive Content tab, and follow the registration instructions.
| Author | : John Edgar Browning |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0786462019 |
This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.
| Author | : Irv Bauer |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2016-11-03 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1317214145 |
Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an approachable anecdote-infused style that’s full of humor, Bauer shows the writer how to put the pieces together, taking the process of screenwriting out of the cerebral and on to the page. Part One of the book covers character, location, time-frame and dialogue, emphasizing the particularity in writing for a visual medium. Part Two of the book focuses on the narrative aspect of screenwriting. Proceeding incrementally from the idea and story outline, through plotting and writing the treatment, the workshop-in-a-book concludes with writing the First Draft. A unique emphasis on the visual elements of storytelling because the camera is always present—the screenplay must act as a guide for the director and the editor. A "workshop in a book" approach that walks the reader step-by-step through a screenplay—focusing on character, location, time frame, visual components, and transitions—with plenty of exercises that generate material for the narrative writing process. A process-oriented approach, combined with a lighthearted tone and approachable style, that allows the reader to ease into the daunting task of writing a First Draft and takes them all the way through to the end— First Draft in hand.
| Author | : Alex Baratta |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2010-07-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1443823538 |
Considering the fact that the academic essay continues to be widely used as an assessment tool within education, there is a need for students to develop their skills in this area. However, it is often the case that students perceive instruction in academic writing, if it is offered at all, as boring. This book addresses these two issues. First, the book can be used by students themselves, even in the absence of academic writing classes, as a self-help guide, from which they can develop their knowledge of academic writing and subsequent proficiency. Second, by discussing the components of academic writing in terms—such as film—which are familiar to today’s generation, students are enabled to relate to the material better and see what might have been perceived as dull from a brand new perspective. Visual learners in particular will enjoy the analogous link between films and essays, and students today are arguably more visually literate than previous generations, being exposed to visuals on a daily basis through text message iconography, computer games and the Internet. The visual instruction provided in turn helps to facilitate mental visuals in students’ minds, from which their knowledge of essay writing can start to develop.
| Author | : Christopher R. Harris |
| Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Journalism |
| ISBN | : 9780205322596 |
Discusses important topics in the growing visual communication field. Visual Journalism discusses the growing visual communication field, making it the first book to combine all of the information necessary to start anyone on a visual communication career. This text examines the historical context of visual journalism while providing insights into modern-day applications of new media processes for the new media professional. It consolidates information from various sectors of graphics to aid the "new media" practitioner, providing practical insight into the changing visual profession. By discussing topics such as visual literacy, ethical considerations, reporting and writing, typography and graphic design, and Internet research, it is of value in any course in which students are asked to create and use visual messages - including graphics, photography, Web design, typography, audio, and video.
| Author | : Anne Hanson |
| Publisher | : Learning Express (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9781576854051 |
Visual writing can teach you how to organize your thoughts for effective writing and communication with word webs, maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, sequential charts, plot diagrams, sample topics, model essays, and more!
| Author | : Esta de Fossard |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2005-11-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0761934006 |
Role models from the visual media often spark in viewers the will to emulate desired behavior. The Entertainment-Education method combines emotional appeal and relevant knowledge in order to promote such behavior change. This bookthe second in a three-book series titled Communication for Behavior Changeis amied at all producing or directing Entertainment-Education dramas for television and film. The authorsboth leading practitioners in the field of Entertainment-Educationdwell in detail on the Design Approach for determining and then articulating effective messages to be contained in the drama, along with guidelines and examples at every step. Drawing on methods that have been tried and tested in various countries worldwide, the guidelines offered in the book will be invaluable for anyone wanting to create a successful Entertainment-Education television drama or film. In addition to a number of actual scripts that have been converted into dramas, the useful appendices provide sample documents of various procedural requirements mentioned in the course of the book.
| Author | : Bo Bergström |
| Publisher | : Laurence King |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : |
Essentials of Visual Communication is an inspiring and uniquely accessible guide to visual communication.The book presents the major disciplines in today's media, and puts theory into practice, explaining how to achieve a strong communication chainfrom strategy and messages to design and influencesto reach the target audience. This book will be invaluable for anyone wanting to communicate through the use of images and text, and in particular for students, whether in the fields of graphic design, advertising, editorial design, journalism, new media, information technology, mass communication, photography, film, or televisionin fact, any discipline that seeks to deliver a message through words and pictures. Essentials of Visual Communication is illustrated throughout with up-to-date examples of best practicefrom around the world that help to put visual theory into context. Summary boxes make it ideal for revision and reference.
| Author | : Martie Cook |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2014-04-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134648294 |
Learn to craft smart, original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres, including comedy, drama, pilots, animation, made-for-TV movies, late night, and reality television. Hear directly from studio and network executives, agents, and managers on what they’re looking for in new writers and how to avoid common pitfalls. Gain access to sample outlines, script pages, checklists, and countless other invaluable resources that will help you break into the industry and put you on the path to immediate success. In Write to TV, Second Edition industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen. This new edition has been updated to include: Tips and techniques from industry vets Jay Leno, Norman Lear, Paul Haggis, David Magee, Susan Rovner, Tal Rabinowitz, Jonathan Littman, Peter Jankowski, Steve Stark, and Doug Herzog that you can immediately apply to your own projects Expanded coverage of writing pilots, pitching, writing webisodes, writing for tweens, writing for late night, and rewriting Useful advice for navigating the confusing television hierarchy, including how to network, get an agent, land that first writing job, and even "do lunch" 25 new interviews with writers and producers of hit shows such as New Girl, Parks and Recreation, The Blacklist, Curb Your Enthusiasm, CSI, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and many more An all new companion website (www.writetotv.com) featuring blog updates, industry trends, a Q&A discussion forum with the author, and many other resources
