I was watching the documentary on the Once Upon A Time In America dvd, and Stewart Kaminski (spelling?) says that he was given a copy of the script, but his only job was to write the dialogue. It was an italian script, where the action is on the left side and the dialogue on the right. But the action was written before any of the dialogue.
And that got me thinking...it's perhaps a good way to tell the story more with images rather than words. So has anybody done this? Write the action lines first and fill in the dialogue later?
I was thinking about doing it myself as sort of an experiment, but I'd like to hear about any kind of potential problems that might come out of writing this way.
And that got me thinking...it's perhaps a good way to tell the story more with images rather than words. So has anybody done this? Write the action lines first and fill in the dialogue later?
I was thinking about doing it myself as sort of an experiment, but I'd like to hear about any kind of potential problems that might come out of writing this way.
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