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A [[{{Dramatization}} dramatized version]] of how a book, painting, movie, etc. came to be made. Unlike the {{Biopic}}, this focuses on the creator's work on a single piece rather than the entire story of their life, though usually one or two other pieces crop up as background.

This trope is not about "making of" [[{{Documentary}} documentaries]], which are far more common. Subtrope of SetBehindTheScenes. Compare and contrast AmateurFilmMakingPlot. See also HowIWroteThisArticleArticle, which is writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
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!!Examples (listed with the work):
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/GundamSousei'' (''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'')
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AndStarringPanchoVillaAsHimself'' (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_General_Villa The Life of General Villa]]'')
* ''Film/{{Capote}}'' (''Literature/InColdBlood'')
* ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'': Technically an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], since it dramatizes the production of [[Film/TheRoom2003 a movie]] widely recognized as SoBadItsGood.
* ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'' is another SoBadItsGood example, depicting the circumstances involving the making of the CultClassic ''Film/{{Dolemite}}''.
* ''Film/Edmond2019'' (''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'')
* ''Film/{{Eiffel}}'' (The Eiffel Tower)
* ''Film/FindingNeverland'' (''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'')
* ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'' (painting of the Art/SistineChapel)
* ''Film/TopsyTurvy'' (''Theatre/TheMikado'')
* ''Cradle Will Rock'' (''The Cradle Will Rock'')
* ''Film/{{Creation}}'' (Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'')
* ''Film/{{Hitchcock}}'' (''Film/{{Psycho}}'')
* ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' (''Film/MaryPoppins'')
* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' (an entirely fictional account of how ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' was written)
* ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' (''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', obviously fictional--Max Schreck is ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy really]]'' a vampire!)
* ''[=RKO=] 281'' (''Film/CitizenKane'')
* ''BAADASSSSS!'' (''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'')
* ''Film/ProfessorMarstonAndTheWonderWomen'' (creating the original Franchise/WonderWoman)
* ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'' (''Literature/AChristmasCarol'')
* ''Film/JewSussRiseAndFall'' (''[[Film/JewSuss1940 Jew Süss]]'')
* ''Film/{{Sin|2019}}'' (the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II by Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti)
* ''Film/{{Mank}}'' (also about ''Citizen Kane'')
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'', by Ken Follet (building of Kingsbridge Cathedral)
* ''Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' (painting... ''Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring'')
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'' (The Creator/WilliamHartnell years of ''Series/DoctorWho'')
* ''Series/TheOffer'' (''Film/TheGodfather'').
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'': The first half is about Creator/GeorgesSeurat painting "Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte", though VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory at best.)
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