An independent television screenwriter gives practical suggestions on writing and becoming a professional screenwriter. (PD)

Describes the dynamics of successful screenwriting. (KS)

Presents four brief plays which elementary children can produce: a Peter Rabbit musical and a Halloween story for primary children plus a February radio play and a situation comedy for the intermediate grades. (Editor/SJL)

Explores how inferential or evocative language functions to determine meaning and focus in screenplays. Demonstrates that, although "shooting scripts" might be read as instructions, "screenplays" can be understood only as a form of writing that communicates its meaning through the connotative nuances of language. Shows how…

The paper explored conceptual and lexical skills with regard to emotional correlates of facial stimuli and scripts. In two different experimental phases normal and autistic children observed six facial expressions of emotions (happiness, anger, fear, sadness, surprise, and disgust) and six emotional scripts (contextualized facial expressions). In…

Because service-learning challenges participants to widen perspectives on social issues, we designed and assessed a multi-semester, multidisciplinary project with both academic and service objectives. In this project, undergraduate students developed a script and video centered on a board game designed to educate high-school students about their…

A discussion of the importance of this sometimes overlooked function of writing in public television. (HB)

Hints to help educational broadcasters deal with audio experts during recording sessions. (Author)

A musical christmas play designed for assembly presentation or as a traveling production played from classroom to classroom. (Author)

Presents a list of the various texts of Williams's plays which were published prior to 1977, including plays produced but not yet published. Notes the existence of unpublished versions of printed plays when such were used for a production. (JMF)

Discusses the casting of small roles in television's dramatic series in terms of social stereotyping. Information is based on interviews with writers, producers, directors, casting directors, and talent agents. (JMF)

Examines the functions necessary to take a technical writer's project from script to screen. Discusses the roles of the producer, writer, director, production crew, and videotape editor in the context of a production of a videotape on managing colic in infants. (RS)

Chooses three "scripts" for experimental films by the Toronto filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, who uses texts in his films in diverse and challenging ways. Describes the role of text and voice in these experimental scripts. Notes that these scripts are used in a screenwriting course. (PA)