ABSTRACT

The most common models for the screenplay have traditionally been drawn from literature: from the nineteenth-century novel to the ‘well-made play’; from historical narrative to Aristotle’s Poetics. I would like to discuss some alternatives drawn from design and digital media. After all, as Lawrence Lessig notes, our very understanding of what it means to write is shifting. ‘Writing with text is just one way to write … The more interesting ways are increasingly to use images and sound and video to express ideas’ (Koman 2005).