Thoughts on Writing – How Studying Movie Scenes Can Help With Writing Book Scenes

I’ve been thinking about how movies pace their scenes and use various shots to draw a viewer in. This started after watching an episode of Film Theorists (they’re a Youtube Channel):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVlnPLaC7swhich talked about where some of the common elements of movies got their beginnings.

We can learn a lot aboutwriting scenes in a book by studying the methods used in film. I’m mostly going to take a look at three primary shots used in movies and TV shows: the wide shot, t...