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Comments on: Clarity Above All http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/2009/07/clarity-above-all/ Screenwriting Tips from One Writer to Another Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Screenwriter-to-Screenwriter.com» Blog Archive » Political Thrillers & Sci-Fi: Track the World http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/2009/07/clarity-above-all/comment-page-1/#comment-882 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:45:31 +0000 http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/?p=251#comment-882 […] Remember, clarity above all! […]

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By: Monica http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/2009/07/clarity-above-all/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:51:31 +0000 http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/?p=251#comment-42 In reply to Joanna.

It gets tricky. You’re right: you don’t need to spoon feed me. However, sometimes beats are dropped somewhere along the line in between something inferred (yet unspoken) and something not on the page, unclear or opaque. I’m not recommending anyone write on the nose. We don’t want any characters to storm around screaming, “I’m angry!” But make sure your beats move cleanly from A to B to C. They need to add up logically. The script should ideally be greater than the sum of its parts, but that transcendence comes more from tone, theme and character arc – the emotional journey the protagonist undertakes – than from the writer being unclear with his beats.

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By: Joanna http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/2009/07/clarity-above-all/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:39:01 +0000 http://www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com/?p=251#comment-41 Monica, from your post it seems as if you’re suggesting that we spoon feed our audience, the first audience being the reader. When you say that “it isn’t on the page,” are we forgetting that a script can and should be greater than the sum of it’s parts?

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