Writing for an audience
Screenwriter = storyteller
- The cinematic experience is not just made up of words you might put on paper, but the audience’s emotional reaction to that information.
Not true:
Director to people
Writer to people
Camera to people
It’s people to people (TRUE)
What is the writer’s purpose?
1. To connect:
2. Themselves
3. Their unique vision
4. The material
5. The drama
6. Others
Audiences want to be transported by a screenplay.
Where do you looks for a story?
Inside yourself.
Everything to learn about other people is already in you.
Now you need to figure out how to connect to it.
Experience
Something, which does not need to be a memory. Are memories true? Memory is filtered through reality. When something sits in your mind, and it merges with other details, your memory of that incident changes.
1. All people have fragments of stories.
2. These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more.
3. Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard.
4. Good stories are born in the heart, not the head.
5. Remember the role of an audience
6. After all, you are the audience.
QUIZ (7 questions)
3 storytelling tools
1. observation
2. memory
3. experience
1. aristotle’s storytelling theories(six definitions)
2. 3 act structure
3. developing 3 dimensional characters(don’t have to memorise the whole thing, just know the diff)
4. writing for an audience
