Palgrave Handbook of Script Development

Stayci Taylor is a Lecturer in Media at RMIT University, Australia. She is an award-winning screenwriter and researcher, published widely on screenwriting, web series and creative writing.Craig Batty is Dean of Research (Creative) at the University of South Australia. He is an award-winning educator and researcher in the field of screenwriting, and is also a writer, script editor and script consultant.

• Part 1: ‘Behind the scenes’ of script development.- Chapter 1: The Feedback Phenomenon: dealing with multiple voices in the development of original screenplays.- Chapter 2: Script Readers as Gatekeepers: demystifying processes of script coverage.- Chapter 3: A Creative Pilgrimage: negotiating Authenticity, Creativity and Budget in the medieval web series Tales of Bacon.- Chapter 4: Creating the Low Budget Feature Film Script: development as emergence.- Chapter 5: Script Development on Unscripted Television: Grand Designs and the spectacle of the reveal.- Chapter 6: Saying What Must Not Be Said: exploring communication in the script development process.- Chapter 7: Scripting Creative Documentary Film: developing the ‘Script’ for Not Reconciled.- Chapter 8: Negotiating Television Authorship and Gendering Creative Identity: Vicki Madden as Australian showrunner.- Chapter 9: Constructing Criticism without Crushing Confidence: cultures of feedback in television script development.- Chapter 10: The Business of Script Development: insights from industry practitioners.- Part 2: Script Development in Time and Place.- Chapter 11: Doctoring La Cacería, las niñas de Alto Hospicio: issues in cross-cultural script consulting.- Chapter 12: Script development as a collective enterprise: the writing of the indigenous feature film Waru.- Chapter 13: Independent, Short and Controversial: the script development of San Sabba.- Chapter 14: How Angelica Became The Strange Case of Angelica: from the idea to the script to the book to the film.- Chapter 15: Scripting for the Masses: notes on the political economy of Bollywood.- Chapter 16: Respectful Partnerships/Cultural Integrity: applying ethical protocols to the scripting of No Longer a Wandering Spirit.- Chapter 17: Writers’ Room and Showrunner: discourses and practices in the German TV industry.- Chapter 18: The ASEAN ROK RICE LAB: voices across Asia, stories about rice.- Chapter 19: 1 + 1 = 3: Danish collaborative practice in screen idea and story development.- Chapter 20: Scottish Modernism Goes to New Hollywood: tracing the script development of Alan Sharp’s Night Moves.- Part 3: Alternative Approaches.- Chapter 21: Creating Kaleidoscopic Characters: working with performance to develop character stories prior to the screen story.- Chapter 22: Lean Script Development in the Available Materials School of Filmmaking: this is dedicated to The One I Love.- Chapter 23: Pedagogy-Led Practice and Practice-Led Pedagogy: a feedback loop of teaching and screenwriting.- Chapter 24: A Comparative Study of the Novel O Quatrilho and its Adapted Screenplays: researching the script development process.- Chapter 25: Scripting and the Multimodal Screenplay within the Script Development Process.- Chapter 26: Don’t eat my baby: collisions, development and Indigenous consultation in the Australian family feature film screenplay, Dingo.- Chapter 27: The Application of an ‘Eternal Dance’ Methodology in the Development of an Original Screenplay.- Chapter 28: A Collaborative Reflection Between Writer, Director and Actors: table reading as scriptwriting ‘intervention’.- Chapter 29: Hitting the Road: performing the journey as a development strategy in Paris, Texas and Goodbye Pork Pie.- Chapter 30: Development Across the Intercultural Divide: scripting stories with ‘other’ groups.- Part 4: Unique Contexts of Script Development.- Chapter 31: Productive Interventions: collaborative script development for stories about mental health issues and suicide.- Chapter 32: Place, presence and play: A listening, co-active approach to story development.- Chapter 33: Crafting immersive experiences: a case study of the development of three short narrative cinematic virtual reality (CVR) projects.- Chapter 34: Script Development as Communicative Process: the case of Notorious.- Chapter 35: Between video games and televisionshows, towards meta script development practices?.- Chapter 36: Developing Texts for Animated Opera: a unique case study.- Chapter 37: From Comedy to Drama: the curious case study of Queenpin.- Chapter 38: ‘You never know who is in control’: German transmedia content development.- Chapter 39: Violet City: script development from novel to green screen fantasy feature.- Chapter 40: Checking The Black List Twice: the ambiguous industry role of script development services.