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Category: Screenwriting

Text and Subtext in cinema

Four Kinds of Subtext

25th September 201925th September 2019ELFS JapanFIlmmaking Tips, Screenwriting

by Mathew Allen Many people say that the secret to good dialogue is subtext. But many of those same people also struggle to identify exactly how to create these elusive layers of meaning. I’ve attempted here to elucidate and distinguish between what I think are the four kinds of subtext, and identify precisely what makes […]

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Six Forms of Empathy and Sympathy

24th August 2019ELFS JapanFIlmmaking Tips, Screenwriting

by Mathew Allen Emotion lies at the heart of the filmic experience, and people always talk about how to make characters relatable or likeable. Below are six techniques each for building empathy and sympathy in your scripts. I believe this to be an exhaustive and refined list—both in that it covers every possible kind of […]

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