From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas /
Rosenthal, Alan.
From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas / Alan Rosenthal. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Clearing your head. The popular genre -- What is docudrama? -- Choosing a dynamic subject -- Starting to work. Research -- The dramatic elements -- Shaping the film -- From treatment to full script. The outline treatment -- Writing dialogue and narration -- Beginning your script -- Special considerations. Adaptations -- Print the legend? -- Rights and legal issues -- Afterword.
Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the 2013 awards. While Hollywood moguls have come to recognize the box-office revenue and critical acclaim that accompany such films and are now fast-tracking many docudramas into theaters, there remains a need for more reality-based film scripts. In From "Chariots of Fire" t.
9780809332991 9781306370226
Motion picture authorship.
Biographical drama--Authorship.
Historical drama--Authorship.
Electronic Books.
PN1996 / .F766 2013
From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas / Alan Rosenthal. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Clearing your head. The popular genre -- What is docudrama? -- Choosing a dynamic subject -- Starting to work. Research -- The dramatic elements -- Shaping the film -- From treatment to full script. The outline treatment -- Writing dialogue and narration -- Beginning your script -- Special considerations. Adaptations -- Print the legend? -- Rights and legal issues -- Afterword.
Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the 2013 awards. While Hollywood moguls have come to recognize the box-office revenue and critical acclaim that accompany such films and are now fast-tracking many docudramas into theaters, there remains a need for more reality-based film scripts. In From "Chariots of Fire" t.
9780809332991 9781306370226
Motion picture authorship.
Biographical drama--Authorship.
Historical drama--Authorship.
Electronic Books.
PN1996 / .F766 2013