ABSTRACT
Reading and Writing a Screenplay invites you to discover the many possible ways to read and write fiction and documentary scripts for cinema, television and new platforms. You will find strategies for conceptualizing and scripting film projects based on the impact that your writing style has on your readers. This new approach to the scenario describes what has shaped screenwriting practices throughout the history of cinema and new media, from 1895 to today. Its aim is to help renew storytelling through innovative and informed ways of writing and reading a screenplay.
We will see that the screenplay gains clarity and traction when it is written using the means of cinematographic expression of which the film is comprised.
If a screenplay tells a story, it must also let viewers picture and hear the film in its gestation. Screenplays are written versions of future movies, and the wording should allow viewers to have a sense of what that film could be, as they are reading it. The way a script is read is critical to its realization. How should it be read? By whom? And with what criteria in mind?
