Reading and Writing a Screenplay: Fiction, Documentary and New Media, 1st Edition

Reading and Writing a ScreenplayFiction, Documentary and New Media, 1st EditionBy Isabelle RaynauldPublisher: Routledge234 pages | 53 B/W Illus.Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining fiction and documentary projects for cinema, television and new media. It explores the critical role of a script as a document to be written and read with both future readers and the future film it will be giving life to in mind.The book explores the screenplay and the screenwriting process by approaching the film script in three different ways: how it is written, how it is read and how it can be rewritten. Combining contemporary screenwriting practices with historical and academic context, Isabelle Raynauld provides key analytical tools and reading strategies for conceptualizing and scripting projects based on the impact different writing styles can have on readers, with various examples ranging from early cinema to new medi