Unraveling the Shadows: How Blackout’s Screenplay Keeps You Guessing Until the Final Frame
There are a secondary set of basics that are just beyond the primary set. And here’s one of them…
Your stakes can’t be general. They have to be specific. The big thing that haunts this script is that it’s implied that something terrible is happening. But we don’t know exactly what it is, and, therefore, we don’t care.
First, we’re told the power is about to go out. Well, I’ve been in LA when the power is out. It’s actually one of the easiest cities to survive a lack of power in because the weather is rarely too hot or too cold here. So, all I’ve ever experienced during a power outage is inconvenience. If this version of a power outage is different, it’s your job as the writer to tell us that. It’s your job to lay all of that information out for us.
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