#9 Crafting a Compelling Fight, Part 3 of 3

This is the final installment in a three-part series called Crafting a Compelling Fight. In this episode, I go in-depth about stage directions. Those little italicized instructions in a script are vital to the violence designer, but you have to understand where they come from, what information they provide, and where they are in the text in order to follow them intelligently or to deviate from them for artistic effect.