Truth and Storytelling - Scripting the Visual Narrative

The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.

List of contents

List of Illustrations; 1. Truth and the Search for Story; 2. Creating Authentic Characters; 3. The Shapes of Visual Narrative; 4. The Structures of Time and Perspective; 5. Outlines and the Spines of Stories; 6. The Truths of Style and Format; 7. Guarded Dialogue and Candid Silence; 8. The Scene and the Story; 9. Honest Revisions; Index.

About the author

Emily D. Edwards is the writer/producer/director of many films and has also published books and articles on popular media. She is currently a professor of media studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Edwards, Edwards Emily
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781785273100
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-310-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dress and Visual Cultures; Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Screenwriting, Films, cinema, Other performing arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Screenwriting, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film scripts and screenplays, Television screenplays, scripts and performances