A Variety of Shots to Paint the Big Picture
We’ve been looking at how adept and creative novelists use a combination of “camera shots” to structure their scenes, mimicking…
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Another Look at Combined Camera Shots in Novels
This week we’re going to continue looking at combined camera shots in novel excerpts. Not every scene in every novel…
Stringing the Segments of Shots Together
After spending many months going over just some of the basic camera shots and how novelists can transcribe these cinematic…
Orchestrating the Symphony of Shots
We’ve spent much time going over camera shots, looking at various stationary and moving shots used in screenplays. If you…
Cinematic POV—Anything but Subjective
In last week’s post I introduced the POV shot used in movie scripts. In a screenplay, when a POV shot…
Seeing through Your Character’s Eyes
Novelists are very familiar with the term POV, or point of view. Whether only one point of view is used…
Follow Along for a Powerful Camera Shot
Depending on the point of view and style of writing, moving shots can either seem like they are occurring inside…
Pan to Take It All In
This week we’re going to talk about PANs. No, not the things in your kitchen. A PAN is used by…
Take Your Reader Where You Want Her to Go
Writing a novel is challenging. It’s tough work and tricky, and here’s one reason. With a movie or TV show,…
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