"Wie Filme fesselnde Geschichten erzählen, zeigt Hagen Myller. In seinem Buch beschreibt er maßgebliche Arbeitsschritte: von der Konzeption der Handlung über die Montage bis hin zur Regie. Der Fokus liegt auf einem zentralen Aspekt, der in der filmwissenschaftlichen Literatur oft unberücksichtig
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t bleibt - der Montage, durch die Film erst Film wird. Durch sie wird aus Handlung Erzählung und aus Bildern eine Geschichte. Filme drehen vermittelt Schlüsselkonzepte des Filmemachens, die für Produzent:innen, Regisseur:innen, Autor:innen und Cutter:innen relevant sind." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Das neue Zeitalter der Streamingwelt bedeutet nicht nur einen Umbruch der Sehgewohnheiten des Publikums, die Entwicklung der Geschichten hat sich ebenfalls radikal verändert. Serien führen ihre Erzählungen über Stunden aus und sind komplexer und diverser. Filme werden nicht nur für den nationa
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len Markt produziert, sondern öffnen sich einem weltweiten Adressatenkreis. Der Prozess der Drehbuchentwicklung rückt dadurch immer deutlicher in den Fokus und ist zunehmend durch Teamarbeit geprägt. Oliver Schütte hat vor mehr als zwanzig Jahren das Standardwerk "Die Kunst des Drehbuchlesens" präsentiert. Nun bietet er auf dieser Basis ein aktuelles und zukunftsweisendes Buch für alle, die an der Entwicklung von Drehbüchern beteiligt sind. Er hat seine jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in den Bereichen Konzeption, Kreation und Produktion von Filmen und Serien einfließen lassen. Er informiert über Figuren und Aufbau, Konflikt und das emotionale Thema. Anschaulich erläutert er die Dramaturgie anhand von Filmklassikern und aktuellen Beispielen. Er erklärt prägnant alle Elemente von wirkungsstarken Geschichten. Darüber hinaus charakterisiert er, was eine gelungene und konstruktive Zusammenarbeit ausmacht. Er beschreibt die Aufgabe nicht nur der Kreativen, sondern auch die der Produktion, Regie und der Verantwortlichen bei Sendern und Streamern. Dabei liegt ein wichtiger Aspekt auf dem kooperativen Teamwork aller und wie dieses erreicht werden kann." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This dissertation explores audiovisual assistance programs through an examination of the largest such program: the EU’s ACPCultures+, which since 2008 has awarded over 50 million Euros to nearly 60 audiovisual training programs, distribution initiatives, and production projects in sub-Saharan Afr
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ica and the Caribbean. Using textual and policy analyses, in-depth interviews, and both digital ethnography and multi-sited ethnographic research in Brussels, Addis Ababa, and Nairobi, I analyze three case studies of projects funded by ACPCultures+ – a screenwriting course in Kenya, a pan-African video-on-demand platform, and the first Ethiopian film to screen at Cannes film festival – while tracing the circulation of the program’s aims and policies from its headquarters in Brussels to audiovisual professionals in Africa and the Caribbean. These cases show how, as ACPCultures+ grapples with media diversity in an era of globalization, it builds on postwar histories of both international development and EU cultural and audiovisual policies in ways that simultaneously enable and constrain media industries in the Global South. Ultimately, this research demonstrates how audiovisual assistance programs are an underexamined piece of the global media landscape in which Northern policies and Southern practices together can reframe debates about media and cultural hegemony and suggest new ways of conceptualizing the geographies of audiovisual industries and policy." (Abstract)
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"This book is intended as a guide on the use of the visual media for behavior change communication. It is not intended as a textbook for those just entering the world of television or film writing and production. While there are some reminders of good writing and production techniques for many progr
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amming types, the emphasis is on what needs to be taken into account when designing, writing, and producing television programs that have a specific behavior change objective." (Preface)
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"Dos de los más exitosos profesionales de la TV argentina, Jorge Maestro y Pablo Culell, un autor y un productor, explican cómo generar productos exitosos en los medios audiovisuales repasando el paso a paso que va de la idea hasta la puesta en pantalla y estimulando la creatividad y la capacidad
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de concreción. El camino que se recorre desde la creatividad a la concepción, desde la idea al guión y desde el guión a la producción y puesta en pantalla. La construcción de la historia y los personajes. Los géneros, la estructura, la producción como tarea creativa. El presupuesto. El marketing. El público y el rating. Las nuevas plataformas y sus contenidos. La experiencia de los autores del libro puesta al servicio del estudiante, del profesional y de aquel que se interese por el tema de la escritura y la producción y con ejemplos propios en un apéndice." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Und nun hat auch der Duden eine kleine Hilfestellung für angehende Drehbuchschreiber veröffentlicht, die neben die deutschsprachigen Vorreiter von G. Koehler "Drehbuch schreiben" und N. Mosleh "Drehbuchschreiben" zu stehen kommt. Die Informationen zur richtigen Vorgehensweise bei der Drehbuchentw
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icklung werden Kapitel für Kapitel begleitet von kleinen Schreibaufgaben, anhand derer man seine Befähigung üben, aber nicht überprüfen kann. Interessant ist die Lektüre allemal, erfährt man doch einiges über die Kniffe der Drehbuchschreiber. Ob man auf diese Weise allerdings dafür sorgen kann, dass deutsche Drehbücher für Film und Fernsehen besser werden, muss offen bleiben." (Rezension in K10plus - Verbundkatalog der Bibliotheksverbünde GBV und SWB)
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"This book is designed to provide practical guidelines to those in the field of entertainment-education drama who want to sharpen their skills. With separate sections for various users - programme managers, writers, producers, directors and actors - the book is a structured, step-by-step manual that
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provides answers to the problems they can face. The book focuses in detail on the 'design approach' for determining and articulating effective messages that are contained in the drama. It draws on methods that have been tried and tested worldwide. In addition to a number of actual scripts that have been converted into dramas, it also contains useful appendices that provide sample documents of various procedural requirements as suggested in the book. Esta de Fossard is Senior Communication Advisor and Professor at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs. She previously taught at the universities of Southern California, Ohio and George Mason. John Riber is a Independent Film-Maker and Director, Media for Development (East Africa), Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania." (Publisher website)
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"The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dra
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matization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length) and complete. Exercises, new examples of short screenplays, and an examination of various genres round out the discussion. New to the third edition: new screenplays, a chapter on rewriting your script, and a chapter on the future of short films." (Publisher description)
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"Popular films and television series tell stories in an entertaining, easily comprehensible fashion. They seem simple, yet often the audience must keep track of several characters, multiple plot lines, motifs, and thematic meanings. Television viewers often face the additional challenge of frequent
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interruptions—for commercials, for week-long gaps between episodes, and even for stretches of time between seasons. Yet they manage, remarkably, to keep track of not only a single long-running narrative, but often several simultaneously. How do film and television writers juggle the need for graspable, enjoyable stories with the many restrictions imposed by their respective commercial formats? How do those two art forms differ in the ways they tell stories? [...] Because television programs typically face far greater restrictions of time and format than films, the storytelling tactics of television often appear extremely simple, especially in situation comedies and dramas with only one or two plotlines. Since the 1980s, dramas with multiple storylines have been praised as introducing complexity into narrative television. I shall argue, however, that good situation comedies and “simple” dramas often in fact also have an underlying complexity. Indeed, many of the interesting aspects of storytelling are hidden in television in a way that they are not in most other arts. We watch television via single episodes, and those episodes may be unremarkable. Yet television is structured in ways that become apparent only if we take the long view. Multiple-episode programs structure narratives within episodes, across seasons, and across a potentially lengthy succession of seasons. To some extent, both classical films and television programs hide their own cleverness in a show of simplicity. In television particularly, the complexity fades into the tenuous connections across a series. Similarly, the virtues of the individual episode— compact exposition, swift progression from cause to effect, establishment of material for future entries in the series—make little impression unless one pays keen attention or undertakes actual analysis, either of the episode or across the season. My first chapter tackles the issue of how one might do that sort of close narrative analysis within episodes ..." (Preface, page ix-x)
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