Video: “Movies Are Mirrors: The Psychology of Watching Film”

An interesting 5 minute video produced by Studio Little (via One Perfect Shot):

As screenwriters, we think about this phenomenon in terms of creating a sense of audience identification to shrink the psychological distance between the script reader and the script, the moviegoer and the movie. How do we do that? Through the characters we create and the circumstances we create around them. It’s not just a generic thing, it’s this character in this situation. Done well, that generates a feeling of emotional resonance with the character mirroring something of our own experience.

Getting a script reader emotionally involved in the lives of our story’s characters is one of our most fundamental goals in writing a script. This video serves as a reminder of that responsibility.

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