Writing Docudrama: Dramatizing Reality for Film and TV

by Alan Rosenthal

Book Overview

* From concept to completion, a thorough, down-to-earth grasp of all the ins and outs of writing the docudrama * Docudrama is a booming industry, with new films appearing almost weekly. Nearly every day one can find news stories that would be dismissed as impossible if they weren't actually true, and many of them are being made into successful feature and television films. Dramatizing Reality explains how to find and rsearch ideas and develop them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240801954
• ISBN13: 9780240801957
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 9.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The ground zero of docudrama teaching

This is a wonderful and highly readable book, which does a superb job of opening up a fascinating but hithertofore totally unexplored area of film and television. A must for anyone interested in the relations between fiction, reality, and drama and wants to know how to enter this fast growing script field and how to write punchy and dynamic scenarios. Absolutely five stars.