Chapter 9
The Secret Garden: Script Breakdown
In This Chapter
• Analyzing the text of your script
• Weighing what you know with what you assume
• Working with subtext and themes
• Breaking the script into scenes (and the scenes into beats)
• Adding and deleting scenes
It’s time to fire the writer and hire the director. Not literally, of course, but we now need to stop thinking of the film story like a writer does and begin thinking of it like a director would. This can be tough if you’re the writer as well, because as the director, you now have to look at the script with “new eyes.” You have to prepare the script to be performed and made into images that can be recorded with a camera.
My friend Sue compares directing to composing music. A film ...
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