Script

• A Production Value Primer: Big Looks for Small Bucks

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 02/01/1996 - 12:00am

  

  Gaining production value on a project doesn't instantly mean spending money. Here's how to improve the quality of your videos with such simple tools as scripting decisions, camera angles and lighting scenarios.

• How to Write a Script: Putting Words to Work in Your Videos

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Fri, 09/01/1995 - 12:00am

  

  Even if you're just taping your family outings to the Grand Canyon, your video projects could benefit from a script of some sort. In this article, we'll take a look at four popular methods for getting your video ideas on paper.

• Script Right - Video Screenwriting Tips

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 07/01/1993 - 12:00am

  

  Even the best videomakers often balk at writing scripts.

  Take my friend Mike Axelrod. A computer programmer since graduating from college, Mike recently quit work to return to school.

  As a film buff who's created a few videos with friends, he decided to combine his two interests and major in computer animation. He signed up for a required screenwriting course and experienced no difficulty in writing individual scenes three to five pages long.

• The World Turned Upside Down

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Mon, 06/01/1992 - 12:00am

  

  During a vacation last summer I met a young man and woman out testing a brand new camcorder. They were having a wonderful time, burning through tape and batteries at a prodigious rate. They shot buildings, landscapes, people, automobiles, animals-nothing went unrecorded.

  We entered into conversation; he told me he was a teacher, intending to make videos for class. His first project, he said, would be a video about his local town. This would both give him an opportunity to experiment with the camera and provide an interesting project for the children.

• And The Word Became Footage

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Wed, 04/01/1992 - 12:00am

  

  "In our romance with technology and our excitement at exploring all the possibilities of film and video, I think we've partially lost something that we now have to reclaim. I think it's time to renew our romance with the word." -Steven Spielberg

  One of the most fearsome sights in the world is the blank page.

• The Write Stuff

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Mon, 04/01/1991 - 12:00am

  

  It was a dark and stormy night. The panicked scriptwriter stared blankly at his battered manual Royal, its hulking mute indifference a sort of physical torture, like needles in his thumbs, taunting, tormenting, an unforgettable reminder of the fast approaching deadline, of the Berlin Wall of writer's block that refused to topple, wouldn't be shattered, guarded relentlessly by mental soldiers who stopped every glimmery, shimmery idea from escaping to freedom, to his blank sheets, to silence the artless laughing demon screaming in his skull.

• The Writer

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  Anonymous (not verified) - Mon, 10/01/1990 - 12:00am

  

  A scriptwriter is like an architect, using talent and skill to produce a blueprint for a finished product.

  A good scriptwriter can think broadly and imaginatively and still not lose sight ofthe tiniest detail. Few people are born scriptwriters. Yet the craft can be learned with a little study and sufficient application.

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