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Script Writing For Animation
Understand the basic concepts and techniques of modern script writing. Comprehend, analyze and produce original creative writing. Develop a sense of storytelling, particularly through cinematic techniques. Develop an appreciation of the goals and practices of writing for American television and film.
- Story - Basic Elements Of A Story, Types Of Stories – Sources Of Story Line – Adaption. Differences in Story Structure.
– Old and Modern Structures – Concept of Acts –Theme – Subplots – Tone. Genre - Writing for Different Types and Groups of Audience.
– Script Writing Format-location, action, dialogue. Shot – Scene – Sequence. Animation Script vs. Live Action Movie Script, Screenplay Format – Elements of Screenplay Format.
-Anatomy of a Script, Script Elements and Scene Heading, Action, Characters. Dialogue - Transition - Shots - Page Breaking, Finer Points.
How to write A Premise, How to write Funny Stuff, Feature, Internet & Sample Scripts. Writing a Television Animation Script.
- Christy Marx, « Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games », Focal Press (1 September 2005).
- Jean Ann Wright, « Animation Writing and Development: From Script Development to Pitch (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) », Focal Press (17 February 2005).
- Jeffrey Scott, « How to Write for Animation », Overlook Hardcover; 1 Edition (10 June 2002
- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, « The Illusion of Life », Disney Publications.
- Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz and Ellen Besen, « Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories », Focal Press; 2 edition (12 April 2013).
