THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT. Chapter: Constructing Criticism without Crushing Confidence: cultures of feedback in television script development

Macneill, Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8815-6426 (2021) THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT. Chapter: Constructing Criticism without Crushing Confidence: cultures of feedback in television script development. In: THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT. Palgrave/ Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, pp. 135-146. ISBN ISBN 978-3-030-82233-0 ISBN 978-3-030-82234-7 (eBook)

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Abstract / Summary

This chapter explores the vital relationship between the creative storyteller and the script editor in the story-telling process. An outside eye can help a writer find objectivity, but this process can crush confidence, especially if the feedback is heavy-handed. When is the best time to give notes to inexperienced writers, who can be creatively crushed under the weight of criticism, even when it is obviously constructive and well-intentioned? The chapter draws on the author’s own experiences of script development, including simultaneously working on two television series; one broadcast worldwide, and the other eventually dropped and not being made at all; interviews with other practitioners, including Graham Mitchell, a scriptwriter from BBC1’s long-running crime drama Silent Witness (1996--), George R.R. Martin’s book editor, Jane Johnson, who discusses working with successful writers; and a range of cast, crew and mentors from undergraduate and postgraduate screenwriting students who share their thoughts on critique.

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Additional Information:	This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82234-7?sap-outbound-id=E2DC36D5A2C3FE107038D2BCBCCEF90DBD396BD1].
ISBN:	ISBN 978-3-030-82233-0 ISBN 978-3-030-82234-7 (eBook)
Subjects:	Education Film & Television Film & Television > Film Film & Television > Television Communication Communication > Creative Writing Communication > Journalism
Courses by Department:	The School of Film & Television
Depositing User:	Marie Macneill
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2022 14:27
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 15:05
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4480

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