What’s on the Companion Website?

This text is designed to work in tandem with a website. Interactive online media provide us with a new opportunity, hitherto impossible to achieve in a writing textbook, to link script blueprint and resultant image in the visual medium in which it is produced. Reading a screenplay or PSA script and connecting them to finished, produced media closes a gap in most people’s imagination. This should help everyone grasp how visual writing works by seeing this critical link. Although the printed book contains some examples of scripts, the website provides many more and also more complete scripts.

An interactive visual glossary of script vocabulary for camera shots and movements enables the reader to see live action ...

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