11.30.06
Posted in Notes at 8:41 pm by myzodj
- Screenwriter = Storyteller
- The cinematic experience is not just made up of words you might put on paper, but the audiences’ emotional reaction to that information (what the audience is going to think when they have had that experience)
- Connections, connections!
- Directior to people
- Writer to people
- Camera to people
- Ultimately, the connection is from people to people. (not a job to the people)
- So, all we need to do is connect
- What is the writer’s purpose?
- To connect:
- Themselves
- Their unique vision
- The material
- The drama (emotions, relationships, conflict)
- Others
- Audience wants to be transported by a screenplay
- Where do you look for a story?
- Inside yourself (personal experiences; memories; things like that)
- Everything you learn about other people that is already inside you
- Now you need to figure how to connect to it
- LAST STORYTELLING TOOL: EXPERIENCE
- Difference between memory and experience:
- Memory: may not learn from it; Experience: learn from it
- Are memories true?
- May or may not be true because different people have different memories of the same experience
- You choose what memory you want to remember
- Memories filter through your reality; Experience actually happened
- Everyone have fragments of stories
- These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more
- Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard
- Good stories are born in the heart, not the head
- When you just let it flow, it comes to you easily
- Remember the role of an audience
- After all, the audience is YOU (is this what I want to read? is this what I want to hear about?)
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