35 | John August On Worldbuilding In Your Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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World Building in Screenwriting
Jeff Yang: I think people don't think about this is that you're always world building, even if it's not a quote unquote new world or fantasy world or sci fi world. So how do we as a writer maintain concession and economy and not over direct our writing but still create something vivid? The really good ones feel like you actually did see the movie. That speaks to a Moira asked do you use we see in your script. We get so frustrated by people who are pedantic about not using we see or we envision the page just like the experience of being in the theater. And I totally agree alsouse capitals because there's a whole debate about what should be accepted for
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