6 Structure

By now you will have come up with an idea, worked out part of your production plan and done your research. This chapter is designed to help you think about the piece, to give you a structure or a way of thinking that will help you to be creative.

You don’t need to read through all of the different sections if you don’t want to; just find the section that deals with the type of production you are doing. However, everyone should read the first section on story structure as you will need to be familiar with these concepts to understand the rest of it. Advertising is dealt with in the next chapter, since the ways to think about advertising and the way it is structured are rather different. News and current affairs are also dealt with ...

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