Chapter 1
Describing One Medium Through Another
Key Terms
a sequence of images |
meta-writing |
Thomas A. Edison |
Academy of Motion Picture |
omniscient narrator |
treatment |
Arts and Sciences |
photo-drama |
visual writing |
action |
photoplay |
visual metaphor |
creative concept |
scenario |
visual writing |
D. W. Griffith |
screenplay |
writing in one medium for |
dialogue cards |
script |
another |
Louis Lumière |
scriptwriting |
The essential problem of writing for visual media comes from the difference between print as a medium, or words on a page, and the medium of moving images. You have to describe an audiovisual medium that plays in real time using a written medium that is abstract and frozen in time. So, a description in words on a page of what ...
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