But what does that actually look like on screen? Screenwriters don’t have the luxury of telling you what a character is thinking, feeling, or doing they have to show you. Think about it like this: the sentence “It reminded her of her childhood” is easily understood in a book or poem and acts as a nice piece of emotional context to let us know the character’s internal thoughts and feelings. It’s a wholly unique process completely independent from writing novels, poems, or essays, especially when it comes to the extremely specific format that screenwriting requires (more on that later). After all, film, TV, and video games are all visual mediums, and the scripts that tell these stories need to externalize a character’s internal motivations. Everything in screenwriting revolves around the visual.
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