Essays about: "Screenwriter"

Found 4 essays containing the word Screenwriter.

1. 1. Screenwriter and Character Gender in a 2020 Body of Swedish Feature Film Proposals

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Johanna Koljonen; [2022]
   Keywords : screenwriting; script development; gender; feature film screenwriting; feminist media studies;

   Abstract : This study of correlations between screenwriter and character gender is based on a 2020 body of 369 Swedish feature fiction film proposals by 380 individual writers, submitted to the Swedish national broadcasting corporation Sveriges Television (SVT) specifically for development funding for screenwriting. Results are compared both with similar data from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI), which is the national funding body, as well as with SFI’s statistics of Swedish films receiving selective or market support. READ MORE

3. 2. Transformative Screenwriting: Charlie Kaufman’s Postmodern Adaptation of Story

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Johan Sundberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Charlie Kaufman; Storytelling; Writing; Screenwriting; Transformative Screenwriting; Transformative; Postmodern; Kaufman; Robert McKee; McKee; Thesis; Essay; Master s; Master; Donald Kaufman; Plot; Archplot; Miniplot; Antiplot; Change; Statis; Screenwriter; Hollywood; Art Film; Synecdoche; Eternal Sunshine; Being John Malkovich; Susan Orlean; The Orchid Thief; Orchid Thief; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : The essay's investigation of postmodern storytelling and transformative screenwriting, in relation to how Robert McKee's Story is reflected in Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation – in text and subtext, form and content – shows that the film's form is that of the classical archplot. It is only Adaptation's content, reflecting the dream of an art film/antiplot that is critical – while the form is a complicitous Hollywood form. READ MORE

4. 3. Mise-En-Page - An Introduction To Screenplay Style & Form

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Ammar Al Subahi; [2012]
   Keywords : Screenplay; Screenwriting; Manus; Scriptwriting; Manusförfattande; Authorship; Auteur theory; Auteur-teori; Blueprint Metaphor; Pasolini; Steven Price; Steven Maras; Mise-en-page; mise-en-scene; Proto-Camera; Reading as Image Building; The Final Broadcast; Filmvetenskap; Film Studies; Filmteori; Film Theory; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to establish the screenplay as a valid, and relevant, object for study in the field of film studies in order to stimulate further research within the field and for a more prevalent inclusion of screenplays in the general discourse of film studies. I argue that accounts of the screenplay as either literature or blueprints, which stand in ideological opposition to each other, are lackluster as they overemphasize the virtues of their own side of the spectrum while at the same time undervaluing the other side; neither accounting for their own vices. READ MORE

5. 4. Writing a screenplay : A study in crafting quality stories for movies and television

   University essay from Institutionen för matematik, natur- och datavetenskap

   Author : Mikael Stånggren; [2007]
   Keywords : screenplay; story; movie script; characters; animation;

   Abstract : The art and science of crafting superior stories for feature film, television, and computer graphics productions, for both local and international purposes alike, are extremely important. In the artistic sense, this is a glimpse at the key elements in creating successful characters, stories, and environments. READ MORE