Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Lesson 11: Go There: Knowing Your Territory
God is in the details, and so is your screenplay.
Screenplays occur in definite physical places: Los Angeles in the 1950s, Atlanta during the Civil War, Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.
Make sure that you know so much about a place and a time, you’ve forgotten half of it. In the best movies, your authority doesn’t register consciously with the audience…but it shows up somewhere in their collective brain pan.
God is in the details, and so is your screenplay.
Screenplays occur in definite physical places: Los Angeles in the 1950s, Atlanta during the Civil War, Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.
Make sure that you know so much about a place and a time, you’ve forgotten half of it. In the best movies, your authority doesn’t register consciously with the audience…but it shows up somewhere in their collective brain pan.
