Chapter 1Describing One Medium through Another
Key Terms
- Academy of Motion
- Picture Arts and Sciences
- action
- creative concept
- dialogue cards
- Thomas A. Edison
- D.W. Griffith
- Louis Lumière
- meta-writing
- omniscient narrator
- scenario
- screenplay
- script
- scriptwriting
- sequence of images
- treatment
- visual metaphor
- visual writing
- writing in one medium for another
The essential problem of writing for visual media comes from the difference between print as a medium, or words on a page, and the medium of moving images. You have to describe an audiovisual medium that plays in real time by using a written text that is ...
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