It is easy enjoying a good film or a television program, admiring it from the spectator point of view who prepares
itself to relax and lets its taken by those vast and imaginaries worlds and personages that show us in the screens. However, we never stop thinking about, that same point of view of a public greedy of emotions, the enormous creative work that implies telling a story through the images of cinema or television. And that work not only depends on actors and directors, who usually are recognizable faces when they speaks of that creative work, also depends on those anonymous personages, the narrators, who enliven ideas over those things that they write, in which is the pillar of all the audio-visual production of quality… the script…
In the work Script techniques to Cinema and Television, from the prize winner scriptwriter and producer Eugene Vale, we would discover more about the complex knowledge and tricks that must know those men and women who, with a typewriter or a computer, and paper as a work tools, have been the truthful, and several forgotten times, responsible for all those stories that we have enjoyed in several occasions. By means of advice, practical examples, anecdotes, and whichever didactic resource and easy assimilation that the author capably uses in the pages of this invaluable guide to scripts writers, we would be able not only to understand the scriptwriters´ work, but to switch on our interior the love and the desire to conserve the tradition to narrate fascinating facts and events, also to evaluate the possibility of exploring and expanding the creativity horizons through the suitable techniques.
It’s a formation text, that will allow to the casual reader discover the departure point that in their favorite films have born, and understand the enormous process behind the creation and development of the script that gave rise to the same ones; it is a practical book, on the other hand, the scriptwriter in formation and until the experimented one, will find knowledge and techniques that go since the own idea’s conception, up to the development of personages and unforgettable stories…