Screenwriting 101: Ben Jacoby

“A big way to connect emotionally to a story for me is music. I listen to it all the time when I write. I have different playlists for each project and they really put me in the mood of the movie, and sometimes even the time period. When I’m writing and I hear a musical phrase that captures an emotion, I try to think about what that emotion is, and what’s the best way to try to recreate it and evoke it in the script.”

— Ben Jacoby

From Go Into The Story interview, October 9, 2015