Product: Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
This course is great!
I had toyed with the idea of writing a musical, and when I started using the videos the idea that stage productions are primarily dramatic text using "the language of dramatic action," while movies are "stories told in pictures with dialogue and description placed within the context of dramatic structure," got me to expand my thinking about Oscar Hammerstein's dictum on the unity of song to storyline, that songs must move character/story forward, in ways that my BFA and MA degrees in Creative Writing never quite got rolling. On stage, pictures can also move an audience where I want 'em to go. And that shift in my understanding I owe to Syd Field's excellent presentation.I have put several of Syd Field's concepts to work in my play-writing and am currently working on a revision of my 1948 Private Eye musical using the pictures of a famous artist as the settings.Thank you Syd Field for your clarity, your insight and inspiration.