Screenwriting 101: Amy Berg

“There’s more rising and falling tension in a television show versus a film where it tends to be a more steady build to the climax… A way to look at it might be that film is a complete novel whereas episodes of television are individual chapters and the series finale is what completes the story. Every chapter has to have some kind of interesting development or revelation in character or plot to keep the television viewer engaged week to week, whereas in film the audience’s butts are in the seats for the duration, so it doesn’t need to be paced in quite the same way.”

— Amy Berg

From Go Into The Story interview, June 1, 2018

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