Title:
Developing story ideas : the power and purpose and storytelling / Michael Rabiger.
Author:
Rabiger, Michael, author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
©2017
Call Number:
PN1996 .R16 2017
Abstract:
"The vast majority of screenplay and writing books that focus on story development have little to say about the initial concept that inspired the piece. Developing Story Ideas: The Power and Purpose of Storytelling, Third Edition provides writers with ideational tools and resources to generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms. Celebrated filmmaker and author Michael Rabiger demonstrates how to observe situations and themes in the writer's own life experience, and use these as the basis for original storytelling. This new edition has been updated with chapters on adaptation, improvisation, and cast collaboration's roles in story construction, as well as a companion website featuring further projects, class assignments, instructor resources, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
9781138956230
Physical Description:
xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
"A Focal Press book"
Contents:
Introduction -- Pt. 1. Overview. Goals and getting started - About the creative process -- pt. 2. The roots of invention. Finding your artistic identity - Autobiography and influences - Playing CLOSAT and pitching ideas - Working from life -- pt. 3. Craft and concepts of drama. Characters, their problems and conflicts - Developing characters of your own - Analyzing drama - Understanding story structure - The tools of drams - Giving critical feedback -- pt. 4. Writing assignments. Tale from childhood - Family story - A myth, legend, or folktale retold - Dream story - Adapting a short story for the screen - Ten-minute, news-inspired story - Documentary subject - Thirty-minute original fiction - Feature film -- pt. 5. Creating collaboratively. Catalyzing drama -- pt. 6. Developing as a writer. Artistic identity and career - Story-editing your outline - Expanding to the finished product -- Index.
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