ORCID Profile
0000-0002-5332-2631
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2016
Abstract: Script development is a creative, commercial and social process in which ideas, emotions, people and personalities combine, cohere, clash and are contested by the practicalities, policies and rapid movements of the screen industry. It is an activity often controlled by hierarchical and financial powers, yet experienced by in idual and usually sensitive practitioners trying to tell their stories to an outside world. Script development is a highly exciting yet potentially very daunting aspect of screen production and in recent times has crept into the university, with academics and academics-in-training developing screenplays for research projects and degrees. In this article we discuss and provide ex les of the academy as a site for researchbased script development, an activity that draws on creative practice research methodologies to find ways of conceiving and executing screenwriting differently. By taking away the commercial constraints of the industry and instead incubating ideas in a research environment, we consider the potential of the screenwriter to use the academy as a space in which their practice can be broadened, deepened, expanded and experimented with. While this practice might sit outside of the industry while in process, we see its results as having the future potential to be used in – or at least valued by – that very industry. As creators, writers, storyliners and script editors of a range of screen works across a range of industry settings, we draw here on our collective screenwriting practice experiences within the academy to focus on the notion of thinking through the screenplay – using research to underpin creative practice, resulting in what we might call an ‘academic screenplay’ – as a way of writing differently for the screen.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2023
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2016
Abstract: In an era of digital film-making it is possible to include many different narratives, images, video and audio recordings into the screenplay. It becomes a multimodal form that is not limited by words perfectly formatted on a printed page. Now that audiences are reaching for more portable and accessible screens, it could be time for film-makers to use these devices during the script development stage. Through the use of digital technologies, the screen practitioner is able to develop, write and view the proposed story on many different screens. It is a new practice that I have adopted as a Ph.D. candidate for my feature film screenplay in development. In this article, I will explore the stages I have taken as a writer-director who has embraced multiple ways of writing and developing the screenplay on various screens. Through a creative and critical approach, I propose that a paperless screenplay has the potential to expand the possibilities of script development and invites the reader to share the experience of the story as it unfolds on the screen.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2017
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