Suggests 18 methodical ways to encourage originality in animation scriptwriting. (Author/ER)

How to plan on-location videotaping so as to minimize missing shots and repetition of camera and lighting setups. (BD)

How to make written narrations informal and conversational in style. (Author)

Reports on the results of a number of tests designed to compare the abilities of readers to look up from their scripts as they read to a TV camera and to attempt to correlate variation in look-up ability with other silent and oral reading parameters." (Author/AA)

Argues that teachers need to reinforce the idea that the successful actor's first step in the process of finding and developing a character is to understand the script. Includes the script for a 10-minute play, Christopher Graybill's "Go Look." Presents a close study of the script. (RS)

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…

Teaching communication skills to children with autism is a primary concern because speech and/or language delay characterize autism. One method of teaching verbal communication skills to children with autism is script fading. This study examined the effects of teaching children with autism to exchange information to peers about objects and…

Readers theatre is a presentation by two or more participants who read from scripts and interpret a literary work in such a way that the audience imaginatively senses characterization, setting, and action. This book offers 50, two-page reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned…

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)