Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters by Linda J. Cowgill

Author:Linda J. Cowgill [Cowgill, Linda J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2010-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

Written Presentation

I am a personal fan of using a written presentation for all or part of the main exposition. Think of Star Wars without its beginning crawl about a galaxy “far, far away.” What a written presentation does is immediately make your viewer an active participant with your work. The audience must sit up and read what’s being shown on the screen. It makes them pay immediate attention to what’s going on, rather than allowing them to sit back and wait for the film to engage them.

In PEEL, Jane Campion uses a written presentation of the main exposition. Cards appear on the screen, intercut with opening credits and shots of a highway flashing by. All are punctuated by the sound of the radio or highway noise. The first card appears:

AN EXERCISE IN DISCIPLINE

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