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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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1. Prepare the perfect pitch -- 2. Explore a new arena -- 3. Service your franchise -- 4. Deliver the verdict -- 5. Make us care -- 6. Value family dynamics -- 7. Fuel your story engine -- 8. Identify characters' weaknesses -- 9. Determine the POV -- 10. Get to the heart of your story -- 11. Know who and what they're up against -- 12. Mine the mystery -- 13. Blueprint your structure -- 14. Unify storylines (via theme) -- 15. Pique our interest with a potent teaser -- 16. Hit the sweet spot -- 17. Pay off the setups -- 18. Establish the mythology -- 19. Push them off a cliff -- 20. Designate an expertise -- 21. Make us laugh. |
| Summary |
If you've ever dreamed of being in charge of your own network, cable, or web series, then this is the book for you. The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides you with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit show. Combining his 20+ years as a working screenwriter and UCLA professor, Neil Landau expertly guides you through 21 essential insights to the creation of a successful show, and takes you behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV's most lauded series, including:Breaking BadHome. |
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Television authorship.
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Television -- Production and direction.
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Television writers -- United States -- Interviews.
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Television producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews.
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Télévision -- Art d'écrire. |
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Télévision -- Production et réalisation. |
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Auteurs de télévision -- États-Unis -- Entretiens. |
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Producteurs et réalisateurs de télévision -- États-Unis -- Entretiens. |
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Television authorship |
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Television producers and directors |
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Television -- Production and direction |
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Television writers |
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United States |
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Films, cinema. |
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Television production: technical & background skills. |
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Television. |
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Screenwriting techniques. |
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Film scripts & screenplays. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Interviews
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TV show runner's road map |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Landau, Neil. TV showrunner's roadmap. Burlington, MA : Focal Press, 2014 9780415831673 (DLC) 2013028754 (OCoLC)854611330 |
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9781134621392 (electronic book) |
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1134621396 (electronic book) |
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9780203381106 (ebook) |
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0203381106 (ebook) |
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