In real life we hide our true feelings all the time. In TV & film, actors and directors take advantage of enigmatic closeups and background music to show viewers that they’re hiding something. What can you, as a writer, do to set up this situation in your script without going over the top?
HINT: Subtext for the win. (Now all you have to do is figure out how to create it.)
The big difference between most people pitching ideas to execs and producers is that all but the rawest exec/producer you talk to knows, before you even enter the room, the rewards you’ll get if they say yes.
Money! Success! Career joy!
EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the latest installment of Stacey Jones’ discussion of Loki and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or is it the Marvel Televerse? The real universe, maybe? My mind, it be a’wondering.
Anyway, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh, and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU!
How ya gonna go wrong watching and listening to a dude who helped create the MCU version of Ironman, TV’s Mandalorian, and – oh yeah – the Marvel Cinematic Universe its very self?
This and more await at Outstanding Screenplays YouTube channel
Once upon a time “munchman,” AKA Timothy Tyler Muncher AKA a veritable truckload of crisp and munchy pseudonyms was an integral part of TVWriter™.
munchachacha has had his ups and downs here, usually starting out like a firecracker and ending up angry and frustrated and slithering off like a 4th of July snake, but he’s always had a big following, and, frankly, all of us here at the current iteration of TVWriter™ love the sonuvabitch.