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What's the Story? the Director Meets Their Screenplay: An Essential Guide for Directors and Writer-Directors

What's the Story? the Director Meets Their Screenplay: An Essential Guide for Directors and Writer-Directors

Markham, Peter

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FilmmakingFilm Guides & ReferenceScreenwriting

ISBN10: 0367415879
ISBN13: 9780367415877
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 8 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director's craft.

Drawing on seventeen years of teaching filmmaking at a graduate level and on his prior career as a director and in production at the BBC, Markham shows how the filmmaker can apply rigorous analysis of the elements of dramatic narrative in a screenplay to their creative vision, whether of a short or feature, TV episode or season. Combining examination of such fundamental topics as story, premise, theme, genre, world and setting, tone, structure, and key images with the introduction of less familiar concepts such as cultural, social, and moral canvas, narrative point of view, and the journey of the audience, What's The Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay applies the insights of each chapter to a case study--the screenplay of the short film Contrapelo, nominated for the Jury Award at Tribeca in 2014.

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