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Inside the Writersroom with Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith

BBC Writers

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The Difference Between Writing for Film and Television

There are eight or nine projects in development, but only two films. The next step is to pitch more film ideas and get a few more things going film wise. Tell me what's the difference between writing for film and for television? It's quite a big difference we found. When you do television, you have to hold more information in your head. And that can be mentally taxing. Whereas with a feature film, it's very contained. Even if it's an epic, you know, so the feature from that we're writing is a historical epic to a degree. So it's massive canvas, but it's still contained. We would like more films. Yeah.

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