Wikipedia defines documentary films as “a broad category of non-fiction motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.” This definition falls short. Documentaries do more than...
Wikipedia defines documentary films as “a broad category of non-fiction motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.” This definition falls short. Documentaries do more than...
More than half the fun of writing and producing a story is brainstorming that story. At the very start, you and your team find yourselves on the edge of creative possibility: you are about to create a world of characters and events that is new and original. Below are...
Making a radio drama is a lot like making a movie except for one major difference …it’s all sound! Your tools are limited to dialogue, music, sound effects and ambient sound — think rain outside or a car driving by. While these tools appear to be limiting, when...
Commercials are designed to accomplish two things: Communicate knowledge about a product — could be a car, shampoo, a law firm, or a person, like a political candidate – or a behavior, such as not smoking, getting vaccinated or healthy eating; and Persuade or induce...
To create a fictional character, you will need to know a) their backstory and b) their future story. Backstory When you arrive in a room, you arrive with a full physical presence on the outside and an entire history of decisions, actions, likes and dislikes on the...
(From: Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary, 2nd Edition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010, as summarized by Sarah Childress, a Meridian Stories Innovator and Artist) Expository mode The primary purpose of the Expository mode is to make an argument....
