Script To Screen: “Whiplash”

Fletcher shares his views on why “good enough” is NOT good enough.

Leave it to the innovative John August to come up with an even better way to compare script pages to what appears on the screen. Check out this video John put together for a scene from the brilliant movie Whiplash:

It’s always fascinating to see what’s included… what’s cut… what’s changed when comparing script to screen versions. You can take a whack at reverse engineering, put yourself in the mindset of the director and editor and try to think of why what’s on the screen is different or the same as on the page.

Hey, why don’t we all flood the Twitter feed for @JohnAugust and beg him to do more of this?

And while you’re at it, you can check out the long-time Script To Screen series I’ve run here on the blog. Reading scripts while watching movies is a great, great learning resource.

Here is a link to John’s YouTube Channel.

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