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Developing Story Ideas: The Power and Purpose of Storytelling Hardback - 2016 - 3rd Edition

by Michael Rabiger

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The vast majority of screenplay and writing books that focus on story development have little to say about the initial concept that inspired the piece. Developing Story Ideas: The Power and Purpose of Storytelling, Third Edition provides writers with ideational tools and resources to generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms. Celebrated filmmaker and author Michael Rabiger demonstrates how to observe situations and themes in the writer's own life experience, and use these as the basis for original storytelling.

This new edition has been updated with chapters on adaptation, improvisation, and cast collaboration's roles in story construction, as well as a companion website featuring further projects, class assignments, instructor resources, and more.

  • Gain the practical tools and resources you need to spark your creativity and generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms, including screenplays, documentaries, novels, short stories, and plays
  • Through hands-on, step-by-step exercises and group and individual assignments, learn to use situations and themes from your own life experience, dreams, myth, and the news as the basis for character-driven storytelling; harness methods of screenplay format, dialogue, plot structure, and character development that will allow your stories to reach their fullest potential

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  • Title Developing Story Ideas: The Power and Purpose of Storytelling
  • Author Michael Rabiger
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2016-07-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781138956247 / 1138956244
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.56 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.42 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Playwriting, Motion picture authorship
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019295046
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.23

About the author

Michael Rabiger　began in the cutting rooms of England's Pinewood and Shepperton Studios, became an editor and BBC director of documentaries, and then specialized for many years in the US as a production and aesthetics educator. At Columbia College Chicago he was co-founder, then chair of the Film/Video Department, and established the Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary. He has directed or edited more than 35 films, given workshops in many countries, and led a multinational European workshop for CILECT. Additionally, he won the International Documentary Association's Scholarship and Preservation Award, served as a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa, and is an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of Directing the Documentary, and the co-author of Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, both published by Focal Press and available in multiple languages.

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