Storm

Well that was interesting. I’ve just completed a short introductory course to screenwriting. And it was useful despite my not having any intent to take it further, at least not at the moment.

The sparseness of the product and the discipline of the process were eye opening. And being part of a team. Knowing that the director and actors are your immediate audience, so not telling them how to do their jobs but stimulating their vision and leaving lots of space for their interpretation.

Worth it.

Sep 1, 2018 at 5:56amWeb
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@storm I’ve been learning a little screenwriting here and there, and this is one of the things that fits right into prose. You can more or less trust the reader to know genre standards and be smart enough to figure things out. Saves a lot of unnecessary words in exposition.
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@checkfox
I'm not a big fan of the three act structure predominant in modern movies, which is probably why I don't watch many. Maybe I'm too Brechtian. Or absurdist. Maybe I find the emotional manipulation too predictable, though you can certainly use the first quarter of the movie, the first Act, to show audiences how to watch it.

I'm continuing with a standard fiction course now, leaving screenwriting alone for a while. Perhaps I'm not used to relinquishing that much control as a writer! 😉