Screenwriting : What do you want the audience to feel… by Maurice Vaughan
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The job is to engage actor/director/whoever's gonna pay your words....then their job is to pour emotions into audience...
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The article raises an essential point which seems to have been missed within the first response. This is fundamental storytelling. Ideally, you're saying something through the story that resounds with people. A big part of my job during production is reminding people that's there's a theme at play and everything hinges on that.
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"Ideally, you're saying something through the story that resounds with people." You're right, CJ.
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As a lit writer initially, the one thing I’ve learned is that the story should always engage the reader in some sort of emotion, or better yet, a bunch of emotions. When I work on a script, I want the reader to feel those same emotions that my characters do. This was a great article.
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Main plot sells tickets, Subplot is the reason you're making it
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A roller coaster ride! Up! Down! The anticipation of going up the largest hill before weeeee!
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Keep in mind above all else - you're an entertainer.
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It feels good to find a name for something I usually do in my scripts, and to recognize so many examples to make the idea clearer. Great article!
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Great points. I like how you used the roller coaster to illustrate emotions in a script, Cherelynn.
You are always casting a spell. Not on yourself. On others.
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Maurice, if readers/viewers come away from something I've cooked up feeling that they've learned some kind of lesson from what I've written, and if they feel good about the world I've come up with, I'm happy.
God, I hope there's a sequel, I'm in love these characters ! I wonder what happened to . ..
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I want readers/audiences to say "I hope there's a sequel" and "I'm in love with these characters. I wonder what happened to..." after they read my scripts/see my movies, Thomas.
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What happened to the undercover agent with Stolen Art & Antiquities, Miss Polina Fontaine?
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What do I want the audience to feel? Entertained.