“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”
Ashley
How did you approach screenplay structure with the seven-part series like this? Is there an act one, an act two, an act three? Do you have a midpoint inciting incident? You know, act breaks. Just how does it go along when you break it out into seven episodes?
Gavin Michael Booth
Yeah, these are shorter form episodes. They’re anywhere between sort of like 18 to 22 minutes. So, it’s more like a half hour show. There are, I do have to plan for one to two commercial breaks depending on what episode number it is. So, keeping that in mind while writing, okay, here’s a good dramatic moment to end on and cut away to commercial and then cut back into, but not a traditional sort of one hour or half hour TV script format. Really, it’s interesting because I can’t say too much about it yet because we’re only on episode one, but there are ways that the narrative structure of some of the upcoming episodes change format. So, some of the episodes in a way feel like standalone, even though they’re all telling part of the same story, it’s playing with different genre and style of telling the story that they really do kind of feel standalone, even though they’re the greater sum of a whole.
