Beats to Scenes with Drew Goddard
About this episode
John discusses with Drew Goddard how to transform story beats into full scenes using examples from his work.
John welcomes back Drew Goddard (Project Hail Mary, High Potential) to ask, how do you turn the beats of your story into full scenes? Using Drew’s script for The Martian, we look at how he translates moments in a book into scenes in a movie, the freedom Drew finds in a beat sheet, how beats […]
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