Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II by Alexandra Sokoloff

Author:Alexandra Sokoloff [Sokoloff, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education & Reference, Writing; Research & Publishing Guides, Publishing & Books, Authorship, Writing, Writing Skills, Humor & Entertainment, Movies, Screenwriting, Self-Help, Creativity, II, Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
Amazon: B005DB81F2
Published: 2011-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

30. Visual Storytelling

This is in my opinion the best part of writing.

One thing all that screenwriting has been really good for is helping me develop a strong visual writing style. I love it when readers tell me, “I can see every scene you write.” But actually, visual storytelling is a lot more than just putting a movie into your readers’ heads as they’re reading your book. Visual storytelling actually presents themes that elevate a story and make it resonate in a reader’s consciousness – and subconscious – long after they close the book.

My obsession with visual storytelling started way before I started writing scripts. Production design is a crucial element of theater, too, and we had a brilliant head of design in the theater department at Berkeley, Henry May, so I got spoiled early on with mind-bending, thematic sets that gave a whole other dimensionality to the plays I saw in my formative years. A good production designer will make every single thing you look at on stage – color scheme, props, sets, costuming, shapes, textures – contribute to your deeper understanding of the play’s story, characters and themes.

That was a lesson that served me well when I started screenwriting. And then working as a screenwriter opened up whole new worlds of visual storytelling.

So what can we as authors learn from screenwriting about writing visually?

A lot.

Let’s start with establishing shots and master shots, setpiece scenes, and visual image systems.

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