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The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations
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The Filmmaker's Guide to Creatively Embracing Limitations

by William R. Pace, Ingrid Stobbe
July 2023
Beginner
196 pages
5h 41m
English
Routledge
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6 Exercises in Limitation Storytelling on the Page

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286639-8

6.1 Starter Yeast

6.1.1 A Spare Scene Screenwriting Exercise

Do you know what the hardest part of teaching screenwriting is?

If you immediately thrust your hand skyward and didn’t wait to be called on before blurting out, “Getting students to write,” you wouldn’t be wholly wrong. That is a challenge, yes … but it actually isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part?

Getting them to have something to write about.

And we’re not even talking about big-ticket items like complex characters, big ideas and grand themes. No, we’re talking about the basics: having anything to write about. At all! Meaning they don’t have an idea for a script to write. Or, maybe more accurately, ...

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