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Producing for TV and New Media, 3rd Edition
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Producing for TV and New Media, 3rd Edition

by Cathrine Kellison, Dustin Morrow, Kacey Morrow
February 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
391 pages
15h 37m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 3

The Big Idea: Script and Project Development

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens—second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day’s events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Reynolds Price

This Chapter’s Talking Points

I.

Think It

II.

Write It

III.

Develop It

I.  Think it

The thinking, researching, soul searching, criticism, doubt, recognition, quiet victory—it’s the process behind the story. The story is king. Always. This principle ...

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ISBN: 9780240818979