Screenwriting in a Digital Era [Paperback]

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistories of the form, Kathryn Millard links screenwriting to visual and oral storytelling around the globe, and explores new methods of collaboration and authorship in the digital environment.Introduction 1. The Picture Storytellers: from pad to iPad 2. Post Courier 12 3. The New 3 Rs of Digital Writing: Record, Reenact and Remix 4. 13 Lessons on Screenwriting from Errol Morris 5. Adaptation: Writing as Rewriting and The Lost Thing 6. Degrees of Improvisation 7. Improvising Reality 8. Composing the Digital Screenplay 9. Collaboration: Writing the Possible Conclusion: Sustainable Screenwriting Endnotes Select Bibliography

Kathryn Millard is an essayist,  filmmaker and academic. She has written, produced and directed award-wining feature films including  drama, documentary and hybrid works. Kathryn is Professor of Screen and Creative Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Screenwriting in the Digital Era is a tour de force provocateur and polemic. Scholar and film-maker, Millard looks back at alternative models of image-based storytelling and presentation in independent and non-Western contexts as a way of looking forward, and defining the digital literacies of screen-writing in the contemporary period. Using a variety of practice-based examples, and an eclectic array of theoretical models from social psychology, sociology, musicology and photography, the text demonstrates how improvisation and composition are fundamental aspects of creating sustainable screenwriting, and advancing screen works. (Paul Wells, Loughborough University)

Kathryn Millard's brilliant book asks: what is involved in screenwriting in the digital era? Surely much more than just words on a page. With images, sounds, fragments of story, impressions of place,lÓ%