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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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