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 From Script Development to Pitch
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By
Jean Wright, Jean Ann Wright serves as an animation pre-production consultant, specializing in writing and development, design, storyboard, casting,
and voice-overs. Over the past few years she?s enjoyed judging animation (including voice-overs) for the Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences (the Emmys). She judges periodically for the High School Drama Teachers Association in California. She also reads new
plays for the Pasadena Playhouse, and critiques high school animation students? artwork for www.acmeanimation.org.
B.A. degrees in Theatre
Arts from Pasadena Playhouse and Art from California State University Northridge capped Jean?s college education. Jean worked at Hanna-Barbera
for eight years as an assistant animator. Her animation training included classes in writing and development, voice-overs, storyboard,
layout, character design, and animation. She?s currently a member of the Women In Animation voice-over group, and worked briefly on
the films Revelation and Another Bobby O?Hare Story as part of the WIA loop group ADRists. Jean has acted in scores of plays and musicals,
on TV, and in a couple of short independent films.
Current memberships: Women In Animation (member of the Los Angeles Chapter Steering
Committee, member of the voice-over group), ASIFA-Hollywood (the International Animated Film Society), Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences, Writers Guild of America west, The Animation Guild (on honorable withdrawal from this animation union), Society of Children?s
Book Writers and Illustrators, Storyboard, Pasadena Playhouse Alumni & Associates, Cal State Northridge Alumni & Associates.
Description
The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process
of creating original characters, developing a television series, feature, or multimedia project, and writing professional premises, outlines
and scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles and pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of
shows already on the air. Animation Writing and Development includes chapters on animation history, on child development (writing for
kids), and on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing and finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well
as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.
Audience
beginning and professional animators (game artists, multimedia artists; animators for TV, video, and film.)
Contents
Acknowledgements
An Introduction and User's Manual
1. Introduction to Animation
2. The History of Animation
3. Finding Ideas
4. Human
Development
5. Developing Characters
6. Development and the Animation Bible
7. Basic Animation Writing Structure
8. The Premise
9. The
Outline
10. Storyboard for Writers
11. The Scene
12. Animation Comedy and Gag Writing
13. Dialogue
14. The Scripts
15. Editing and Rewriting
16. The Animated Feature
17. Types of Animation and Other Animation Media
18. Marketing
19. The Pitch
20. Agents, Networking, and Finding
Work
21. Children's Media
Glossary
Index
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 360 pages, publication date: JAN-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80549-8
ISBN-10: 0-240-80549-6
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
Price: Order form
EUR 26.95
USD 33.95
GBP 18.99
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Last update: 29 Aug 2008
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