“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”
Ashley
So just maybe you can describe what do you think is now some of the differences with a feature film versus a TV show? What are some of the things that you noticed in terms of the writing?
Gavin Michael Booth
A lot more time to spend on scenes and interactions between characters with a series than a film. You get a bit more of a film. You have to be very, very succinct with your exposition and just making sure that that story is never getting bogged down. In a series, you get to hang on moments a little longer. You get to include more moments that just don’t, it’s not that they’re not great for the film. They just don’t fit like if you’re trying to two-hour runtime. Here it’s a little more flexible and especially in the streaming age that we’re in where these episodes don’t all have to be the same length. One can be longer than the other. It’s not locked into this 60-minute window with a commercial break here, here, here, and here. It’s been kind of freeing compared to what it is making a movie. And generally, a movie I find you end up shooting more than you need and whittling it down in the editing room. That’s sort of par for the course that you’re going to lose some material. With this, so far it’s not all fully edited, but I haven’t lost any scenes at all, at least not in whole. And there’s been the breathing room to kind of get what was on the page up on the screen. The most in the editing process we’ve done is maybe rearrange a few things or maybe borrow something from episode two and move it to season or episode three. But it feels looser than writing a movie, which has been the majority of my background.
