CHAPTER 17
EXPLORING THE SCRIPT
INTERPRETING THE SCRIPT
We explored many tools for developing the dramatic potential of a screenplay in Chapter 8. But once major rewriting is done, script analysis becomes script interpretation as you prepare to make cinema from a literary blueprint. This requires a rather different analysis and preparation. New directors in particular nearly always under develop their scripts, a particular irony since it is their own work. Later in editing they discover all that lay latent and unused in the screenplay.
This chapter offers many tools for preproduction development. Taken together they are probably excessive, so do as much as you find useful. Short films are an excellent practice ground: they ...
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