Beats to Scenes with Drew Goddard

from Scriptnotes Podcast · host Drew Marquardt

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 […] The post Beats to Scenes with Drew Goddard first appeared on John August.

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