The Screenplay Business : Managing Creativity and Script Development in the Film Industry.

The Screenplay Business : Managing Creativity and Script Development in the Film Industry.

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 Busi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloore, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Motion picture authorship.
Motion picture industry > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
Motion picture authorship
Motion picture industry > Finance
Motion pictures > Production and direction
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a world of stories and money
  • The complex world of film development. The bigger picture (how films are developed)
  • Show me the money: the business of film and the value chain
  • A new analysis of types of film and film development funding
  • The creative triangle: building development relationships
  • The reality of development: power and influence in a dynamic system
  • The development executive and the script editor
  • Managing creative people in film development: control versus freedom. Defining creativity in the movie business
  • Who are creative people and how to motivate them: psychology and insight
  • Managing creative people and film development
  • The script meeting: listening and feeding back
  • Strengthening the development team culture and building a sustainable creative company
  • Working with the Hollywood studio system: being independent in a world of prefabricated daydreams
  • The writer: surviving development and negotiating success
  • Into the future: a creative way to develop better films.

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