Chapter 1.8. Where Screenwriting Leaves Off and Emotioneering Begins
Approaching emotion logically.
Approaching playing seriously.
Make things
interesting and make them deep.
Over the course of a decade, as I created and distilled screenwriting and story techniques for “Beyond Structure” and elsewhere, I found that they all fall on one of the two axes of this grid:
The arrow across the top represents techniques to make things interesting—unique, imaginative, original, etc.
The vertical arrow represents techniques to make things “deep”—to give them the feeling of emotional depth or to make them emotionally layered, poignant, soulful, emotionally complex, ...
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