ABSTRACT

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.

 

 

part |1 pages

Part 1: Defining the Problem

chapter 1|13 pages

Describing one medium through another

chapter 3|16 pages

The stages of script development

chapter 4|18 pages

Describing sight and sound

part |2 pages

Part 2: Solving Communication Problems with Visual Media

part |2 pages

Part 3: Entertaining With Visual Media

chapter 8|30 pages

Dramatic structure and form

chapter 9|35 pages

Writing techniques for long-form scripts

chapter 10|23 pages

Television series, sitcoms, and soaps

part |3 pages

Part 4: Writing for Interactive and Mobile Media

chapter 11|16 pages

Writing and interactive design

chapter 12|16 pages

Writing for Interactive Communications

chapter 13|15 pages

Writing for interactive entertainment

chapter 14|21 pages

Writing for mobile media

part |1 pages

Part 5: Anticipating Professional Issues

chapter 15|18 pages

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