I’m supervising an Independent Study at the moment, on Scriptwriting. The student has a novel that he is adapting to screen. We spent an hour today talking about compulsion and goals, propelling the audience, forward momentum and the three-act structure, and more conversations on the differences between writing novels and writing for screen.
It was awesome.
I might have said that he can wax lyrical for 10 pages about a leaf in a novel, but not in a screenplay.Â
Unless you’re Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky can wax lyrical on film for as long as he wants. That is beautiful.
Busy Times 