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Perspective and POVs in TV Writing (PT88)
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
May 7, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Alex and Nick discuss how to use your characters' perspectives and points-of-view to drive your episode narrative. From unreliable narrators and voice-overs, to POV on the page, see the world through your characters' eyes.
What is a point-of-view in the context of a television story? How can you put your audience in the shoes of a character? What are interesting and unique ways of using POV as a narrative device? How can you translate a character's perspective to the page of a script? What are common problems with writing POVs?
Plus, a major announcement about the podcast.
The Paper Team looks ahead...
SHOWNOTES
Content
Paper Scraps: Paper Tease Announcement (00:45)
1 - Defining Point-of-View and Perspective (03:07)
2 - Interesting TV examples of POV as a narrative device (05:57)
3 - Using point-of-view on the page and common problems (21:53)
Takeaways and Next Week On (32:51)
Links
Paper Tease - TV Script Teaser Competition
"Analyzing Great TV Scenes" (PT77)
Rashomon
"The Ugly Truth" (2x16 - Farscape)
"Critical Film Studies" (2x19 - Community)
Boomtown
Graham Yost
The Affair
Big Little Lies
Peep Show
"Nonlinear Storytelling" (PT70)
Special thanks to Alex Switzky for helping us edit this episode.
If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :)
You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex - @TVCalling
Nick - @_njwatson
If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co
What is a point-of-view in the context of a television story? How can you put your audience in the shoes of a character? What are interesting and unique ways of using POV as a narrative device? How can you translate a character's perspective to the page of a script? What are common problems with writing POVs?
Plus, a major announcement about the podcast.
The Paper Team looks ahead...
SHOWNOTES
Content
Paper Scraps: Paper Tease Announcement (00:45)
1 - Defining Point-of-View and Perspective (03:07)
2 - Interesting TV examples of POV as a narrative device (05:57)
3 - Using point-of-view on the page and common problems (21:53)
Takeaways and Next Week On (32:51)
Links
Paper Tease - TV Script Teaser Competition
"Analyzing Great TV Scenes" (PT77)
Rashomon
"The Ugly Truth" (2x16 - Farscape)
"Critical Film Studies" (2x19 - Community)
Boomtown
Graham Yost
The Affair
Big Little Lies
Peep Show
"Nonlinear Storytelling" (PT70)
Special thanks to Alex Switzky for helping us edit this episode.
If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :)
You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex - @TVCalling
Nick - @_njwatson
If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co
Released:
May 7, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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