Oh, I actually forgot there were notes for week 6 until I wanted to study Aristotle. Here goes!
Week 6 “Writing for an Audience”
Writing for an audience
Screenwriter = storyteller
The cinematic experience is not just made up of words you might put on paper, but the audiences’ emotional reaction to that information.
X Director to people
X Writer to people
X Camera to people
It’s people to people
What is the writer’s purpose?
To connect:
Themselves
Their unique vision
The material
The drama
Others
Audiences want to be transported by a screenplay
Where do you look for a story?
Inside yourself.
Everything you learn about other people is already in you.
Now you need to figure out how to connect to it.
observation- memory- experience
Experience
You learn from experience
Memories changed, they are filtered by reality
All people have fragment of stories
These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more.
Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard.
Good stories are born in the heart, not the head.
Remember the role of an audience.
After all, you are the audience.
