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Less Is Definitely More Today's Stage 32 Blog comes from Chris Morley, a playwright, screenwriter, a
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Less Is Definitely More Today's Stage 32 Blog comes from Chris Morley, a playwright, screenwriter, and editor based in Toronto, Canada. Rule 1: Never tell the audience what they already know. Rule 2: Knowing what to leave out is as important as what to leave in. The crux of this blog is "Never dramatize what the reader can imagine for themselves"; at least for on-screen drama. Novelists may need to give this some thought. But for screenwriters letting the audience fill in the blanks of the on-screen story with their own imagination is infinitely more effective and powerful then walking them through something they have already anticipated and essentially written in their own minds. Case in point, this blog illustrates this with an example from Downton Abbey by master story-teller Julian Fellowes. Warning, spoiler alert from Season 2, Episode 7. [Continue Reading ]( Copyright © 2021 Stage 32, All rights reserved.
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