The screenplay business : managing creativity and script development in the film industry / Peter Bloore.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2013Description: xviii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm001: 43826ISBN: 9780415613330 (pbk.) :; 9780203143711 (ebook) :Subject(s): Motion picture industry | Motion picture authorship | Motion pictures -- Production and direction | Media StudiesDDC classification: 791.437 BLO LOC classification: PN1995.9.P7 | B58 2013Summary: The development of a film script is a long and complex process, initially creatively driven by the writer, but managed by a producer or development executive. This text examines the process and considers how to create the best processes and environments for developing stories and concepts for film.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The development of a film screenplay is a complex and collaborative process, beginning with an initial story and continuing through drafting and financing to the start of the shoot. And yet the best ways of understanding and managing this process have never been properly studied. The Screenplay Business is the first book to do exactly that, addressing such questions as:
How do film scripts get written, and what are the tensions between creativity and business? How can the team of the writer, producer, director and development executive work together most effectively?The Screenplay Business presents a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the business of independent script development, and encompasses ideas about creativity, motivation, managing creative people, value chains, and MBA leadership theories.
This book will help producers and writers to nurture their stories through the long development process to the screen. It explains the international film business, and contains new research and extensive interviews with leading industry figures, including practical advice on how to run script meetings and handle notes; how to build a sustainable business; and how to understand what really happens when a script is written.
The Screenplay Business is a new key text for academics and students researching film and media, and indispensable reading for anyone working in film screenplay development today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The development of a film script is a long and complex process, initially creatively driven by the writer, but managed by a producer or development executive. This text examines the process and considers how to create the best processes and environments for developing stories and concepts for film.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. ix)
- List of tables (p. xi)
- List of boxes (p. xiii)
- Preface (p. xv)
- Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
- Introduction: a world of stories and money (p. 1)
- Part I The complex world of film development (p. 7)
- 1 The bigger picture: how films are developed (p. 9)
- 2 Show me the money: the business of film and the value chain (p. 30)
- 3 A new analysis of types of film and film development funding (p. 52)
- 4 The creative triangle: building development relationships (p. 69)
- 5 The reality of development: power and influence in a dynamic system (p. 92)
- 6 The development executive and the script editor (p. 115)
- Part II Managing creative people in film development: control versus freedom (p. 129)
- 7 Defining creativity in the movie business (p. 131)
- 8 Who creative people are and how to motivate them: psychology and insight (p. 142)
- 9 Managing creative people and film development (p. 164)
- 10 The script meeting: listening and feeding back (p. 176)
- 11 Strengthening the development team culture and building a sustainable creative company (p. 200)
- 12 Working with the Hollywood studio system: being independent in a world of prefabricated daydreams (p. 229)
- 13 The writer: surviving development and negotiating success (p. 246)
- 14 Into the future: a creative way to develop better films (p. 265)
- Appendix A Sternberg's analysis of levels of creative contribution, as applied to the science fiction film genre (p. 285)
- Appendix B Examples of script reader report forms (p. 290)
- Notes (p. 293)
- Bibliography (p. 323)
- Index (p. 339)
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