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Passmore, Simon. "Screenplays : writing, discourse, and process." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/90094/.

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This thesis argues that screenplays have, throughout their history, been overlooked, undervalued, and misrepresented in ways that obscure them as works of creative writing. Restoring writing and creativity to the definition and analysis of screenplays, against metaphors that reduce them to industrial or technical documents, the thesis also contends with discourses that nominate screenwriting a lesser kind of writing than literary writing, writing that is not meant to be read; a formulaic mode of writing without agency, voice, complexity, or distinctiveness; a fixed and limited writing that is

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Steyn, Ronan. "Hench." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25533.

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Hench, by being set in the espionage genre, and following the henchman of an evil villain, offers a commentary on the modern working world by serving as a metaphor for the corporate workplace. The film follows a lowly henchman, Hank, who learns to challenge this corporate structure by achieving self-respect, thanks to an unlikely friendship with a James-Bond-esque agent. This creative explication explains how Hench achieves commentary on how large corporate structures operate to maintain control over employees, and the effects this has on individuals. It further highlights the tools and techni

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Lyon, Alicia B. "The Offering : writing a historical screenplay /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/31115633.

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Van, Poppel Elisabeth Wilhelmina. "Oleander : the writing of the contemporary supernatural drama." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15995/.

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Oleander is a screenplay and exegesis that explores how the supernatural drama contributes to a deeper understanding of contemporary feature writing. The central theorists of the feature film, represented here by McKee, Seger, Vogler and Hauge, have created a robust model built around a three act structure, an inciting incident and clear challenge pursued and resolved by a protagonist. The thesis argues that the supernatural drama also calls for the logical treatment of the supernatural element, its managed concealment and its step by step revelation as part of the story development. The thes

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Krause, Shane Peter. "Not Welcome: Writing Horror in Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16449/.

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&quotNot Welcome" is a thesis containing an original dark genre screenplay called Acolytes and an exegesis called &quotNot Welcome": Writing Horror in Australia. The screenplay is about two boys, victims of years of bullying, who find a way to rid themselves of their bully for good, exchanging one problem for something much worse. But it's an elaborate and calculated lie. The truth is Acolytes is about the concealment of a crime and not the vengeance of a victim. Acolytes is intentionally moody, oppressive and obtuse--it has a true crime-scene ambience. The power of the story lies in its tr

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Stånggren, Mikael. "Writing a screenplay : A study in crafting quality stories for movies and television." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Mathematics, Natural and Computer Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-215.

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<p>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. In the technical sense, it is a review on how to write a professional screenplay, as well as a comparison between different mediums, methods, and styles of writing. In order to conduct this research and accomplish said goals, material from a variable set of sources, including work by a

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Anson, Tylyn. "Changes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/7.

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The screenplay for a narrative film is the key starting point in the development process, and writing a feature length screenplay is a particularly grueling process. This thesis traces my efforts to write a full, strong draft of a feature length screenplay, from conception to the current draft. The essay catalogs the notes I received on the screenplay, as well as my own ideas for changes and developments as I wrote the screenplay. After the essay, the current (as of this date, May of 2012) draft of the screenplay is attached as a presentation of my work reflected in the essay.

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Obrien, Jason s. "HEADSHOT." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2100.

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Griffin, Henry. "Edith." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1631.

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Yule, Eleanor. "Sensing the Middle Ages : a quest for sensorial fidelity in the writing of a medieval film screenplay." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.759318.

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Gorney, Oscar K. "Ballers." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1525.

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Sayyah, Navid, and Amir Bahador Farzaneh. "Introducing a Set of Guidelines for Facilitating Movie-Script Writing, as a Tool for Transferring Knowledge inside Organizations." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-117614.

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The importance of knowledge transfer inside organizations is an undisputable fact, which got the attention of managers in recent decades. One of the most important reasons that make the knowledge transfer a compulsory task is the danger of its loss. Storytelling in any of its forms, including movie script writing, facilitates knowledge transfer by the use of its potency in representing different information’s component and interrelationships between them. But using movies and movie-scripts in organizations as a knowledge management tool is not as easy as it sounds. There are some issues that s

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Barak, medina Eran. "Dramatizing Human Enhancement : how to turn a moral and social debate about a futuristic technology into a TV series screenplay." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASE007.

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Cette thèse de doctorat est un projet de «recherche à travers la création», qui a pour objectif d'explorer et d'éclairer le processus d'écriture d'un scénario pilote de série télévisée de science-fiction, qui traite du sujet moralement chargé de l'amélioration humaine.La science-fiction est un genre très important dans le monde en évolution rapide, avec sa technologie en constante évolution. Les romans de science-fiction, les films et les séries télévisées jouent un rôle majeur dans la création d'un discours social, moral et culturel sur la façon dont nous, en tant qu'humanité, pouvons et devo

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Ding, Grace T. "The Circuit: An Original Television Series." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/881.

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Between good and evil there's a whole lot of gray: Welcome to The Circuit. A shady private security firm recruits criminals straight out of prison and sells its services to the highest bidder, saint and sinner alike (mostly sinners). Through the trials and tribulations of a diverse ensemble cast, the show explores some of my absolute favorite themes in storytelling: gray morality, found families, and unlikely heroes. Follow our gritty and guarded lead Shaye as she struggles to tame a group of talented and contentious ex-cons under the shadow of her ambitious and manipulative father, all the wh

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Stoner, Zachary. "Hell is a Game Show: An Artistic Interpretation of the Afterlife." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524835391884507.

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Hoover, Philip Andrew. "Finding the center : the writing process of "Cheer Up, Charlie"." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26491.

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The following report details the process of writing the feature screenplay "Cheer Up, Charlie," from inspiration and conception through outline, first draft, and rewrite. I will examine these steps in order to better understand the creative decisions made between the birth of the idea and the current screenplay draft, and reconcile the differences.<br>text

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吳辛夷. "Sleepless: A Screenplay and Writing Notes." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sz892q.

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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>新聞學系<br>104<br>Some people yearn for stars and seas, some limit themselves in day and night, kitchen and love. Awake and asleep is the basic key to life. “Sleepless” is a three-parts screenplay including “Free Light”, “Free Love”, and “Free Dream”. These three stories show three different life statues about sleeplessness, describing different individual stories under one sleepless world. The essay includes a script and creation statements. It first starts with the introduction of creation background and writing courses, follows by reviewing story-writing technique. Lastly, usi

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Gammon, Michael Abraham. "Spilling red ink : the writing process for "Nature red”." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22611.

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This report details the writing process that led to “Nature Red,” a screenplay about an aging hippy with a successful farm co-op whose dark past comes back to haunt him in the form of a sociopathic drifter. I begin with the inspirations for this story. Then I discuss the “story-breaking” process, pre-writing, drafting, and revising. I will discuss what I learned about the story’s subject matter as well as what I learned about storytelling for film. Included are samples of prewriting and revision materials.<br>text

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Stringer, Steven William. "On writing "The death of us"." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22615.

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This report details the writing and revision process that went into my thesis feature screenplay, The Death of Us, a romantic comedy about a young man who fakes his mother’s death to try to keep his girlfriend from dumping him. I trace my steps from the idea’s conception to the completion of my thesis draft of the screenplay, using the outlines and beat-sheets I created at various stages along the way as examples. I explain the circumstances and inspirations behind The Death of Us, and finally, I attempt to reconcile the giant gap between my original intentions for this script and the final

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Hannaham, James. "God says no : a novel ; &, You must remember this : a screenplay." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30114.

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God Says No is a novel purporting to be the testimonial of Gary Gray, a young black man coming of age in Charleston, South Carolina. Gary cannot reconcile his Christian faith with his homosexual desires. Eventually, before a suicide attempt, he asks God for a sign. The following day, his Amtrak train derails outside Atlanta and a vision of Christ inspires him to run away from his old life. While hiding out, he joins a dance/theater company and continues to explore and battle his sexuality. Eventually, his wife tracks him down and he agrees to attend a reparative therapy center in Memphis. Whil

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Pinkerton, Kevin Jeffrey. "How to BBQ a comedy the UT way: the writing of Club Fed." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-08-254.

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In this thesis report I describe in detail the conception of a fictional story set in present-day Florida and the Caribbean and its development as a screenplay, the University of Texas Graduate School learning environment that facilitated this writing exercise, and my reflections on the MFA process as a whole.<br>text

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Sousa, Henrique Alves de. "Writing for the player : adapting a traditional screenplay into an interactive format." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/16455.

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Video games are one of the most powerful storytelling tools of today and possess one intriguing and complex element: interactivity. Player interaction is often difficult to implement within the structure of a story and, as such, many games opt for a linear narrative structure, rather than giving players control over the course of the story’s events. The main goal of this work is to understand the evolution of storytelling within games, by analyzing their history, and to bridge the gap between traditional screenwriting and interactive storytelling, by exploring the process of adaptation f

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Zisman, Noah Ira. "How to achieve Extinction without killing yourself : the process of writing a screenplay." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1845.

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“How to Achieve Extinction Without Killing Yourself: The Process of Writing a Screenplay” examines the creative procedure of writing the sci-fi feature Extinction. It explores the step-by-step process of idea genesis through to the third draft.<br>text

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Cote, Jennifer Rounseville. "Killing realities, phantoms and darlings : the creative slayings of "Finishing school"." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1903.

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This report chronicles the creative inspiration, writing, and rewriting processes that went into the development of Jennifer Rounseville Cote’s screenplay “Finishing School.” The following pages additionally examine issues in the horror movie genre and screenwriting practices in general.<br>text

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Samouilova, Marina. "Exploring the screenplay writing process implications for instructional design and cultural-historical activity theory /." 2005. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-910/index.html.

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Jones, Kimberley Kaye. "Texas bright." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30238.

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This thesis consists of two feature-length screenplays, the drama Texas Bright, and the comedic drama The Summer of Breaking Into Public Pools, as well as "Funny Face," a spec script for the ABC medical drama, Grey's Anatomy.<br>text

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Nourbakhsh, Armineh. "When heaven fell : the development of "Paradisia"." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4093.

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“Paradisia” is a feature screenplay that is set in Iran during the opening days of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq. It follows the story of a young couple in a war-torn border town, who, accompanied reluctantly by a random stranger, set off to bury the girl’s deceased father before they leave the city. This document is a report on the process of the development of the script, from the conception of its original idea, to the formulation of its plot, characters and structure, based on my sources of research and inspiration. It offers a brief account of the events of the first days of war, and compar

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Wu, Yi-Ting, and 吳依庭. "Legal issues regarding films, television screenplay contract— centering on Judicial Judgements on Writing Assignment Contract in Taiwan and China." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hsv9p4.

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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>法律科際整合研究所<br>107<br>Every film and television programme project begins with a screenplay. A production company would generally sign a “Screenplay Writing Assignment Contract” with a screenwriter to minimize a substantial risk of loss. Yet, production companies and screenwriters often have different understandings on when payment may be made or how to exercise the right of attribution; as a consequence, many contract disputes and litigations are to be dealt with. In recent years, the frequent exchanges and dialogues between Taiwan and mainland China increases cooperative opportu

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Reeves, Autumn Rebekah. "Straight out the gait : the writing process of Mallwalkers." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26584.

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"Straight out the Gait: The Writing Process of Mallwalkers" documents the writing process of Mallwalkers, a feature-length comedy script about competitive mall walking. The report connects the writer's personal life to the process of writing three drafts of the film.<br>text

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Saloio, Ana Rita Antas. "Argumento e dossier de produção “KM 27”." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/3539.

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Orientação : Inês Gil<br>Márcia, Vasco, Débora e Rui vão passar férias a uma quinta alentejana. Movidos pelos ciúmes e pela curiosidade, os quatro amigos vêem-se presos nas mãos de uma família psicopata. Um segredo bem guardado por décadas é desvendado, transformando as férias numa luta pela sobrevivência.<br>Marcia, Vasco, Débora and Rui go on holidays to country house on Alentejo. Driven by jealousy and curiosity, the four friends find themselves trapped on the hands of a psychopathic family. A secret well-kept for decades is unveiled, turning the holiday into a struggle for survival.

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Morrison, Bruce. "Men who march away : a screenplay : submitted to Canterbury University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing, Christchurch, NZ /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1896.

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Kottova, Alena. "Filmmaking: a new pedagogical method to explore students' view of nature of science." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6712.

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This dissertation examines the nature, scope, and significance of a new pedagogical approach to teaching of views on nature of science (VNOS) to high school students. Educational approaches based on teaching ‘correct’ VNOS continue to be dominated by the epistemology of logical empiricism and, as I will point out, these approaches are inadequate to address the issues of VNOS. I assert and the findings presented in this dissertation offer evidence that students’ VNOS are dynamic and context-based. In this research I used filmmaking to explore students’ VNOS. High school students, supported by

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