Doctor Who script books: Difference between revisions
m (Switching {{title}} for {{DISPLAYTITLE}} to make things work better in MyWikia and various modules on desktop version of site) |
m (galleries look best when they're centered and their captions are centered) |
||
| Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
== Titan script book series == | == Titan script book series == | ||
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | <gallery postition=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | ||
File:Titan The Tribe of Gum.jpg|[[The Tribe of Gum (script)|Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tribe of Gum]]<br />[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]<br />01/1988 | File:Titan The Tribe of Gum.jpg|[[The Tribe of Gum (script)|Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tribe of Gum]]<br />[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]<br />01/1988 | ||
File:Titan The Tomb of the Cybermen.jpg|[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (script)|Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tomb of the Cybermen]] <br />[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]<br /> 29/08/1989 | File:Titan The Tomb of the Cybermen.jpg|[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (script)|Doctor Who The Scripts: The Tomb of the Cybermen]] <br />[[Titan Publishing Group|Titan Books]]<br /> 29/08/1989 | ||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
== Big Finish audio scripts == | == Big Finish audio scripts == | ||
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | <gallery postition=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | ||
File:The Audio Scripts Vol1.jpg|[[The Audio Scripts]]<br />[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]<br />12/2002 | File:The Audio Scripts Vol1.jpg|[[The Audio Scripts]]<br />[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]<br />12/2002 | ||
File:The Audio Scripts Vol2.jpg|[[The Audio Scripts: Volume Two]]<br />[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]<br />01/2005 | File:The Audio Scripts Vol2.jpg|[[The Audio Scripts: Volume Two]]<br />[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]<br />01/2005 | ||
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
== Other script books == | == Other script books == | ||
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | <gallery postition=center captionalign=center hideaddbutton="true" widths="150"> | ||
File:Shada script book.png|[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]] VHS release script book<br />[[BBC Video]]<br />1992 | File:Shada script book.png|[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]] VHS release script book<br />[[BBC Video]]<br />1992 | ||
File:BBC Script of the Film.jpg|[[Doctor Who: The Script of the Film]] <br />[[BBC]]<br />17/05/1996 | File:BBC Script of the Film.jpg|[[Doctor Who: The Script of the Film]] <br />[[BBC]]<br />17/05/1996 | ||
Revision as of 18:16, 28 November 2013
Script books have sometimes been released giving the scripts — generally the shooting scripts — of various episodes of Doctor Who.
Overview
A television script can take various forms of revisions and drafts from the original submission of a storyline to the final broadcast. Not always, but often, the most common progression is as follows.
The script, as delivered by the author, is revised by a script editor to produce a rehearsal script. The director and production team work from the rehearsal script.
The rehearsal scripts are further revised by the actors in rehearsals, and for technical and aesthetic reasons. Camera operations and technical crew details are added and refined into a camera script.
The programme is made from the camera script. Once agreed this copy may be considered 'LOCKED', but this is not the end of the process.
The version of a script prepared before filming is more recently referred to as a shooting script (to which further last minute omissions and additional dialogue scenes may be added), these may be due to any number of reasons - practical reasons, timing, technical reasons, or simply changes from the actors themselves before all filmed material is submitted to the editing and post-production teams for a further series of, often quite radical, changes.
A final version of the script, reflecting what was actually transmitted, may also be produced. This is called a programme-as-broadcast script.
Doctor Who script releases
During the history of the Doctor Who franchise, a limited number of teleplay scripts have been commercially released. These have ranged from teleplays taken from the original 1963-89 TV series, to scripts from the 2005-present revival. Big Finish Productions has published several volumes of scripts taken from its ongoing line of audio dramas. And to date two books featuring three teleplays from unproduced stories have been published, all featuring abandoned First Doctor stories: The Masters of Luxor, Farewell Great Macedon, and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance; the latter is a single-episode script included in the same volume as Farewell Great Macedon. One script book, for the unbroadcast (but partially completed) Shada was also published with the UK release of a video of the story.
Titan script book series
Big Finish audio scripts
The Audio Scripts
Big Finish
12/2002
Other script books
Doctor Who: The Script of the Film
BBC
17/05/1996
Doctor Who: The Scripts: Tom Baker 1974/5
BBC
18/10/2001
Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts
BBC
13/10/2005
