Posts Tagged ‘voice’

Visual style is something that is often neglected or overlooked.  Many new writers just put the story on paper and forget about the camera altogether.  The resulting script is often just a series of locations with basic action and dialogue, which isn’t wrong, it just leaves a lot open to interpretation. Visual style isn’t the [...]

Everything you put in your script contributes to tone.  Tone is the mood or feeling the audience gets from the show that underscores your overall message, giving your show a distinctive voice. Every show has a tone, but some are stronger than others.  The ones with a weaker voice are more or less ‘cookie cutter’ shows: the characters are a [...]

Some people say you can’t teach writing.  That’s like saying you can’t teach language.  Everything we do is taught.  We’re taught to walk, to talk, to eat, to cook so what makes these people think you can’t teach writing? Now more than ever, we need to know how to write.  Every day, we write emails, text messages and it’s steadily [...]