Storytelling through prose and through screenplay can be very different things, and I don’t think I entirely appreciated how different until I started taking classes in screenwriting and trying my hand at scriptwriting myself. Of course, books and movies/TV are very different media, and as such, have to be approached in different ways. To me, the biggest difference (and we’re just talking about the purely writing side here, so disregarding production and all the extra complications of that!) between prose and screenwriting is the difference between the “internal” POV of a reader and the “external” POV of a movie or television viewer.
Screenwriting Skills Translated to Book-writing
Screenwriting Skills Translated to…
Screenwriting Skills Translated to Book-writing
Storytelling through prose and through screenplay can be very different things, and I don’t think I entirely appreciated how different until I started taking classes in screenwriting and trying my hand at scriptwriting myself. Of course, books and movies/TV are very different media, and as such, have to be approached in different ways. To me, the biggest difference (and we’re just talking about the purely writing side here, so disregarding production and all the extra complications of that!) between prose and screenwriting is the difference between the “internal” POV of a reader and the “external” POV of a movie or television viewer.