| Description |
xvi, 256 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Linda Venis -- Section I: writing your one-hour television drama specs and pilots. Writing the on-air one-hour drama spec: the story and outline / Joel Anderson Thompson ; Writing the on-air one-hour drama spec: the script / Charlie Craig ; Writing the one-hour drama pilot / Richard Manning ; Revising one-hour drama specs and pilots / Matt Witten -- Section II: writing your half-hour television comedy specs and pilots. Writing the on-air half-hour comedy spec: the story and outline / Julie Chambers and David Chambers ; Writing the on-air half-hour comedy spec: the script / Julie Chambers and David Chambers ; Writing the half-hour comedy pilot / Phil Kellard ; Sitcom master class: creating comedy through character / David Isaacs -- Section III: being a professional in the television business. Launching and sustaining a television writing career / Alison Lea Bingeman ; The tv year / Richard Hatem. |
| Summary |
What does it take to go from being a TV fan to a professional TV writer? Television writers--whose many produced credits include The Simpsons; Mad Men; Frasier; X-Files; Battlestar Gallactica; CSI: Miami; Law and Order; and House, M.D.--take aspiring writers through the process of writing their first spec script for an on-air series, creating one-hour drama and sitcom pilots that break out from the pack, and revising their scripts to meet pro standards. They also learn how to launch and sustain a writing career and get a rare look inside the process of creating, selling, and getting a TV show made. Edited by Linda Venis, Director of the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Inside the Room is an unmatched resource for everything readers need to know to write their way into the Writers Guild of America. |
| Subject |
Television authorship -- Vocational guidance.
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| Added Author |
Venis, Linda editor of compilation.
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UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
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| ISBN |
9781592408115 (pbk.) |
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1592408117 (pbk.) |
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