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Writing for Visual Media, 4th Edition
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Writing for Visual Media, 4th Edition

by Anthony Friedmann
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
19h 23m
English
Routledge
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Part 3Entertaining with Visual Media

In Get Shorty (1995), John Travolta plays Chili Palmer, an enforcer for loan sharks who want to collect from a movie producer. As he gets caught up in the movie world, he comes out with the perfect line with which to launch this part of the book: “I’ve got a great idea for a movie.” Let’s face it. Everybody has an idea for a movie. We’ve all seen more films and television movies than we can count. We can all imagine a story, a character, or an imaginary world that would be just as good as some of the movies we have seen. Now is the time to look more closely at what it means to conceive and write a feature film or a long-form television script. Many dream of a concept, but not many have the perseverance to ...

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ISBN: 9780415717946