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It’s simple. We’re watching it. Develop your characters in such a way that even someone who has never seen True Blood can grasp what they are looking at here. If this doesn’t make sense, get out your notebook and write down everything you can tell about these two people and their relationship and their backstories…
Read moreA truly brilliant piece of visual storytelling. Revealing character? Check. Conflict? Check. Complication? Check. Sitting over coffee dishing backstory is not required when you build a scene this way. Everything you need to know, you can see.
Read more6 Screenplay Examples of Successful Phone Call Scenes | ScribeMeetsWorld.com
6 Screenplay Examples of Successful Phone Call Scenes | ScribeMeetsWorld.com Follow these six screenplay examples and write phone call scenes which stand out An amazingly fun and useful article about visual writing.
Read morethe-average-gatsby: (x) Stand-up is one great way to think about screenwriting. It’s an idea that’s written down in a specific format that requires the audience’s emotional participation. You know, storytelling. Comedians make a point in a specific, personal way, with jokes. If they weren’t jokes, this would be a lecture. Or a speech. Donald Glover…
Read morekosdetermination: Edgar Wright – How to Do Visual Comedy from Tony Zhou on Vimeo. If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and an appreciation of a director so…
Read moreVISUALLY INTRODUCING A CHARACTER
Because of Tumblr, I started watching Hannibal and inadvertently fell wildly in love with Mads Mikkelsen’s voice. That’s not really an unusual thing for me, btw. So I went over to Netflix to check out some Danish films, and found a perfect visual character intro for you in the first ten seconds of Adam’s Apples….
Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Meaningful Images
Notes from a Screenreader: Meaningful Images nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. A script is a story that will be told with images. It feels like that goes without saying, but spec scripts are so often crushed under the weight of their own dialogue that it bears repeating. Meaningful images are revealing, memorable, interesting…
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