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Developing Story Ideas
The Power and Purpose of Storytelling
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This updated edition includes new chapters on adaptation, improvisation, and collaboration in story construction, complemented by a companion website with additional projects and teaching resources.
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Ideal for aspiring screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, and storytellers seeking a foundational guide to generating and developing original story ideas with practical exercises and creative inspiration.
The vast majority of screenplay and writing books that focus on story development have little to say about the initial concept that inspired the piece.
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The vast majority of screenplay and writing books that focus on story development have little to say about the initial concept that inspired the piece. Developing Story Ideas: The Power and Purpose of Storytelling, Third Edition provides writers with ideational tools and resources to generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms. Celebrated filmmaker and author Michael Rabiger demonstrates how to observe situations and themes in the writer’s own life experience, and use these as the basis for original storytelling.
This new edition has been updated with chapters on adaptation, improvisation, and cast collaboration’s roles in story construction, as well as a companion website featuring further projects, class assignments, instructor resources, and more.
- Gain the practical tools and resources you need to spark your creativity and generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms, including screenplays, documentaries, novels, short stories, and plays.
- Through hands-on, step-by-step exercises and group and individual assignments, learn to use situations and themes from your own life experience, dreams, myth, and the news as the basis for character-driven storytelling; harness methods of screenplay format, dialogue, plot structure, and character development that will allow your stories to reach their fullest potential.
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Jonny Elwyn, freelance film editor, praises the enduring relevance of the book through its three editions, highlighting its unique focus on the critical initial stage of story creation often overlooked by other storytelling manuals.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138956230
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 July 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 3rd edition
Illustration: 9 Tables, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 218
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About the Author
Michael Rabiger began in the cutting rooms of England’s Pinewood and Shepperton Studios, became an editor and BBC director of documentaries, and then specialized for many years in the US as a production and aesthetics educator. At Columbia College Chicago he was co-founder, then chair of the Film/Video Department, and established the Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary. He has directed or edited more than 35 films, given workshops in many countries, and led a multinational European workshop for CILECT. Additionally, he won the International Documentary Association's Scholarship and Preservation Award, served as a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa, and is an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of Directing the Documentary, and the co-author of Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, both published by Focal Press and available in multiple languages.
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