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 […]

People in this episode

Host: John

Guest: Drew Goddard

Topics covered

• screenwriting
• storytelling
• scene development
• adaptation
• beat sheets

Keywords

• screenwriting
• Drew Goddard
• The Martian
• beat sheet
• scene development

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Project Hail Mary, High Potential, The Martian

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