Next Level For Storytellers and Screenwriters by Chapman Professor Dr. Connie Shears
Film Courage What do you think can be helpful for screenwriters when they look at the science behind writing and story?
Dr. Connie Shears, Professor Crean at Chapman University and Author: I think it’s profoundly helpful for a screenwriter to recognize the physiological processes that their audiences are experiencing. To have at least a minimal understanding of the visual and the auditory information being received is the same. Everybody’s eyes and ears work the same way but once that information is transduced into neural impulses in the brain that is where the screenwriter needs to understand that every person in there is working from a different schema, an organized set of their experiences, building up their own individual expectations.
Here is where the screenwriter can capitalize on general experiences. So in this day and age almost everybody has…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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