
The Bear: The First Image and the Opening Sequence
Write Your Screenplay Podcast
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The First Cut - The Feeling of the Show
A great first image gives us this powerful serialistic expressionistic transformative, transcendent, magical moment. And then, bang, we are slammed into reality. Just in that first cut, we're actually able to tell ourselves what the show is going to feel like. The next most important thing about your first image is not about selling your sript. We want the whole feeling of the show on the first page.We don't need every element of the show. We don't need the hook of the show, but we need the feeling because we need the audience to say do i want to watch this or not?
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