Scriptwriting for Web Series: Writing for the Digital Age by Marie Drennan, Yuri Baranovsky, and Vlad Baranovsky from Focal Press offers aspiring writers a comprehensive how-to guide to scriptwriting for web series in the digital age.
Containing in-depth advice on writing both short and long-form webisodes as part of a series as well as standalone pieces. It goes beyond the screenwriting process to discuss production, promotion, and copyright in order to offer a well-rounded guide to creating and distributing a successful web series.
Written in a friendly, readable and jargon-free style by an experienced scriptwriting professor and two award-winning web series creators, the book offers invaluable professional insights as well as examples from successful series, sample scripts, and interviews with key series creators, writers, and industry professionals.
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Story Structure
Chapter 2: Establishing a Series Premise
Chapter 3: Designing Characters
Chapter 4: Dialog
Chapter 5: Writing and Revising
Chapter 6: Format
Chapter 7: Ask the Pros
Appendix A: Sample Script
Appendix B: Writing Mechanics Guide
Appendix C: A Warning for Instructors
Yuri Baranovsky is one of the founders of Happy Little Guillotine Studios, a production company on the forefront of online entertainment. HLG Studios is responsible not only for creating one of the first, original web series, the groundbreaking Break a Leg, in addition to Leap Year, but also for creating and producing some of the web's biggest branded campaigns, including the Slurpee Unity Tour (Winner of the Pro Campaign of the Year award). Most recently, Yuri and the company produced Dan Is Dead (Disney) and Binge, a dark comedy about bulimia, all of which Yuri also directed and co-wrote. Aside from his work at HLG Studios, Yuri has also written and directed for popular entertainment platforms such as TruTV, CollegeHumor, Fullscreen, NBC Universal, USA Networks, and more.
Vlad Baranovsky is one of the founders of Happy Little Guillotine Studios, a production company on the forefront of online entertainment. He co-created and co-wrote the web series Break a Leg with his brother Yuri and has also gone on to write for a number of successful branded entertainment campaigns, including two seasons of the highly acclaimed series Leap Year and the upcoming Disney series Dan Is Dead, for which he also produced the entire soundtrack.