Screenwriting 101: Liz Hannah

“The perspective of whose point of view you’re telling the story from, what character you want your audience to empathize with… At AFI we were taught that if you water down your POV too much, the audience really loses sight of giving a shit, for lack of a better phrase. I think you can really get your audience in on a couple characters. Don’t get me wrong. The ensemble movies that can do it, I’m very jealous of, but, for me, I can only juggle a couple POVs at one time. The whole process before I sit down to write has to be ‘Whose POV am I telling? What perspective is each scene?’”

— Liz Hannah

Go Into The Story interview, January 2018

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