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Soundtrack has a key role in emphasizing emotions. This is why learning how a composer creates music for a story is an insightful path to understand the emotional core of a script. It is an…
Read the PostEMOTIONAL TONE IN STORYTELLING: IT’S A KIND OF MUSIC
May God save coincidence. It is one of the most useful screenwriting tools. It means making two characters encounter each other at the right moment, creating a twist because something happens exactly when needed, or…
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Professor Fletcher from Whiplash has entered my personal hall of fame of the best antagonists in movies. Writer-director Damien Chazelle says that in creating the merciless, ultra-exacting master, he was influenced by the way the…
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How do you improve a scene? Here is an example from American Sniper. The meet cute between navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) and his future wife Taya (Sienna Miller) in the bar where soldiers…
They say that screenwriting is like problem solving. A good scene is the result of a series of problems solved by the writer. An example? Here is how Beau Willimon explains the genesis of the…