Day 12 Assignment

[Emmanuel Sullivan]

Emmanuel Sullivan’s Visually Appealing Bible

What I learned doing this assignment is pictures and graphics bring a story to life. Text is key to telling the story, but the visuals allow you to see the world.

[Renee Brown]

Renee Brown’s visually appealing bible

What I learned doing this assignment is the layout of the images need to be as clean as the layout of the text in the Bible. Open space is key and lets the viewer get the vibe quickly just like scanning the text in the Bible.

[Joseph Eastburn]

Hi Renee,

Do you have a partner yet for exchanging Pitch Bibles and giving feedback? Please keep me in mind.

Thanks!

Joe Eastburn

[Daniel Melin]

Daniel Melin’s

What I learned doing this assignment is the value of sprucing everything up in such a way that still feels organic to the story. You want an image that invests the reader with intrigue, just as your show does, and that starts to excite the reader by filling their head with a few select images of what the show could become.

I wanted one picture that laid out the surface image of the show, which is a nighttime picture of a small city in Minnesota, like Athens, my setting is meant to be, but then quickly revert to beautiful paintings that reflect the magical underworld of Everlasting Summer. Each painting is also chosen to reverberate with the part of the Bible which immediately follows it. The world is introduced by a picture of the sleeping Titania, which introduces us to the strange setting. The Character Descriptions are preceded with a quarrel between Titania and Oberon, which sets the viewer thinking more of interpersonal relationships and the drama they will create, etc.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee – Visual TV Bible

What I learned is to start looking for pictures that tell the story and combine in a visually appealing yet concise manner.

[Barbara Gilmore]

Hal scored an interesting and informative interview with Drew Forester.

The TV series I’m writing is inspired in location only by the small community where I currently live. If I decide to use photographs then I’ll try to use as many of my own as possible. In fact in the draft screenplay for Green Lake I’d inserted some photos to inspire the story.

Drew Forester’s TV Pitch Bible is a great visual and very slick. I learned a lot.

I’d like to be flexible on this. I wonder whether some Producers prefer TV Pitch Bibles without photos. My focus continues to be on writing a TV Pitch Bible without photos and I’ll definitely consider adding photos if this approach elevates the bible.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by  Barbara Gilmore.

[Donna Stockwell]

What I learned from this assignment is how much more intriguing the story is to me, and to those I shared the image with, and it clarified the highlighted main characters.