Meredith Alloway

Speechwriters, reporters, essayists… for them, audience is essential. In fact, all writing should be crafted with the audience in mind. Even Shakespeare wrote to an audience – from the groundlings to the gentlemen – and he used an array of devices to connect and involve that wide audience with his plays. Rarely does a writer ignore the audience and find sellable success, and this is especially true in screenwriting. It is a business after all, the audience your customer. And you must write for that customer – Always! It’s helpful to think of screenwriting as a…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwrS-_tzefo A sequence is a self-contained portion of the entire story, usually about 10 to 15 minutes (pages) in length. It has its own tension (not the main tension, but related in some way) and it has its own beginning, middle, and end.