Writing for the Screen

Craig Batty is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Bournemouth University, UK. He is a writer and script consultant, and has published widely on screenwriting. Zara Waldeback devised the Creative Screenwriting MA at Thames Valley University and has previously worked at Brunel and Sussex Universities, UK. She freelances as a script editor and has worked for British Screen, First Film Foundation and Film London.

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- PART I: FOUNDATIONS.- 1. Establishing Practice.- 2. Subject: Ideas into Character.- 3. Structure and Narrative.- 4. Visual Storytelling.- 5. Dialogue and Voice.- 6. The Cultures of Screenwriting.- 7. Key Points and Foundations Exercises.- PART II: SPECULATIONS.- 8. Exploring Possibilities.- 9. Subjects: Ideas into Character.- 10. Structures and Narratives.- 11. Visual Storytelling.- 12. Dialogues and Voices.- 13. Further Cultures of Screenwriting.- 14. Key Points and Speculations Exercises.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.