Dec 11, 2012
John and Craig talk about perspective both within a scene and the overall story. It's not always obvious to the reader which characters are in the driver's seat, so it falls on the screenwriter to make that clear.
We have four new Three Page Challenges this week, with genres ranging from horror to sex comedy. John begs you to never try to establish a character's backstory by featuring them on a magazine cover.
All this, plus an update on John's experience writing his most recent script entirely in Fountain, in episode 67 of Scriptnotes.
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UPDATE 12-14-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.