Writing for Visual Media - Paperback

by Anthony Friedmann (Author)

Provides writers with an understanding of the nature of visual writing behind all visual media. Such writing is vital for directors, actors, and producers to communicate content to audiences. This new edition has a finger on the pulse of the rapidly evolving media ecosystem and explains it in the context of writing and creating content.

Author Biography

Anthony Friedmann has an M.A. in English from Harvard University and a B.A. and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and trained as a filmmaker at the London School of Film Technique. After twenty-one years of writing, producing, and directing film and video, he has taught video production, interactive multimedia, and scriptwriting at various colleges and universities. He continues to do technical writing, write for corporate clients, and develop independent projects for film and publishing. His work ranges from feature films to corporate video for English, American, and French clients. Bartleby, which he wrote and directed, won Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 1971. He is a member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.