{"id":1404,"date":"2006-05-18T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/18\/on-writing-film-vs-tv\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T23:02:00","slug":"on-writing-film-vs-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/18\/on-writing-film-vs-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing: Film vs. TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking some more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abctalentdevelopment.com\/html\/writing_fellowship_mainpage.htm\">Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program<\/a>, I browsed over to screenwriter John Rogers&#8217; blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/\">Kung Fu Monkey<\/a>, and re-read his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/writing-plot-and-story.html\">Writing: Plot and Story<\/a>.  Therein he articulates what I&#8217;d been trying to say before, about why I feel more drawn to screenplays than teleplays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]n film, a plot&#8217;s something you move your characters through to change them. In TV, generally, your characters inhabit the plot, but don&#8217;t really change. (this is evolving, but slowly). The goal of TV characters &#8212; and I&#8217;m not even going to try to dive into the meta-osity of this &#8212; tends to be to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">resume the status quo<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to write about life-changing experiences.  I want to write stories wherein the characters (and, we hope, the audience) <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">learn<\/span> something.  As I was jotting down notes for a screenplay idea yesterday, I wrote myself a note: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">what is the moral of the story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I guess I know what I&#8217;m going to write now.  Thanks, Kung Fu Monkey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking some more about the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program, I browsed over to screenwriter John Rogers&#8217; blog, Kung Fu Monkey, and re-read his post on Writing: Plot and Story. Therein he articulates what I&#8217;d been trying to say before,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}