Managing Creativity and Script Development in the Film Industry
By Peter Bloore
How do movie scripts get written, and what are the tensions between creativity and business?
How can the team of the writer, producer, director and development executive work together most effectively?
The Screenplay Business is the first book to address such questions.
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The development of a movie screenplay is a complex and collaborative process, beginning with an initial story and continuing through drafting and financing to the start of the shoot. And yet the best ways of understanding and managing this process have never been properly studied.
The Screenplay Business presents a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the business of independent script development, and encompasses ideas about creativity, motivation, managing creative people, value chains, and MBA leadership theories.
This book will help producers and writers to nurture their stories through the long development process to the screen. It explains the international movie business, and contains new research and extensive interviews with leading industry figures, including practical advice on how to run script meetings and handle notes; how to build a sustainable business; and how to understand what really happens when a script is written.
The Screenplay Business is a new key text for academics and students researching movie and media, and indispensable reading for anyone working in movie screenplay development today.
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
Most producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century. Analysing the Screenplay highlights the screenplay as an...
Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
