“Unlock Your Script’s True Potential: 5 Game-Changing Questions You Must Ask Before Taking Notes!”

"Unlock Your Script's True Potential: 5 Game-Changing Questions You Must Ask Before Taking Notes!"

A woman with black nail polish typing on a silver laptop; 5 Questions To Ask Yourself When Getting Script NotesA woman with black nail polish typing on a silver laptop; 5 Questions To Ask Yourself When Getting Script Notes

Is This a World or Prose Note?

Do you have any notes that mention your prose writing style? Or that there are moments where the story drags and you have it in there because it’s showing the audience the rules over the world? How about there being too much exposition?

No matter the genre, you have information you have to get across to the reader, and you want to do it in an interesting way. Sometimes, you simply have to include exposition in dialogue, but the goal is to get anything in this vein across through the story, which means character action. Think of movies like Inside Out, which uses the opening to show us not only who Joy is (setting up her emotional arc, vulnerabilities, and desires), but also the bigger rules of the fantastical world in a little girl’s mind.

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