Using Close-Ups in Your Scenes to Get Personal
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…
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A Variety of Shots to Paint the Big Picture
We’ve been looking at how adept and creative novelists use a combination of “camera shots” to structure their scenes, mimicking…
Another Look at Combined Camera Shots in Novels
This week we’re going to continue looking at combined camera shots in novel excerpts. Not every scene in every novel…
Stringing the Segments of Shots Together
After spending many months going over just some of the basic camera shots and how novelists can transcribe these cinematic…
Orchestrating the Symphony of Shots
We’ve spent much time going over camera shots, looking at various stationary and moving shots used in screenplays. If you…
Match Cuts for Creative Structure
The last stationary camera shot we’re going to look at is called a Match Cut. I’m including this shot although…
Angle On to Single It Out
Here’s another stationary camera shot you can add to your writers’ toolbox: Angle On. This shot usually occurs in scenes…
The Punch Is in the Details
As we examine the different stationary camera shots, we want to take a moment to look at the Insert Shot….
Series of Shots for High Tension
In our exploration of using cinematic technique in fiction writing, we began looking at a camera directive called Series of Shots….
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