Writing Television Drama

Get Your Scripts Commissioned

Nicholas Gibbs

• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781444167610
• Topic: Médias et arts de la scène
• Subtopic: Rédaction de scénarios de films

Break Into Writing For Television takes you from the very first line of the script through to becoming a regular writer for soaps and 'continuing dramas'. It starts with the basics of different types of script and production, and moves on to getting ideas, shaping character and dialogue, re-writing, pitching work and the practicalities of who does what in the production world, in both the UK and the US. Structured around a practical, progressive, goal-orientated approach, each chapter contains a diagnostic test, case studies, practical exercises and Aide Memoire boxes. Each chapter concludes with a reminder of the key points of the chapter (Focus Points) and a round-up of what to expect in the next (Next Step), which will whet your appetite for what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Dedication
• Title
• Acknowledgements
• Contents 
• Meet the author
• Introduction
• 1 What is a Script?
• 2 Television Drama Formats
• 3 What is a Spec Script?
• 4 Preparing the Script
• 5 Creating Characters
• 6 Dialogue
• 7 Creating a World
• 8 Structure
• 9 The story
• 10 Storytelling Techniques
• 11 The Scene
• 12 Writer’s Block
• 13 The Outline
• 14 Rewriting
• 15 Where to Send Your Script
• 16 Continuing Drama
• 17 The broadcasters
• 18 TV scriptwriting in the United States
• Taking it further
• Glossary
• Copyright