Writing for Visual Media, 3rd Edition

Defining the Problem

Many people, and perhaps some readers of this book, will start out with confidence in their basic ability to write but be unsure of how they should apply it to writing a script. To know how to write for the visual media, it is important to understand how such writing differs from the writing most of us have learned to do until now. To change these habits and learn how to write a script, we need to see the specific problems that this different kind of writing solves. Above all, we need some kind of method to solve those problems. The first part of this book is devoted to a logical and pragmatic analysis of the reasons that ...