When I brainstorm new ideas for movies, one of the things I work on right away is the tone of the story. To me, it informs so much more than even the genre.The tone sets the stage for the narrative I want to follow, and it also informs the kinds of things that can happen in the story, as well. So today, we're going to go over this together and make sure you're thinking about it in your writing as well. Let's get started. Tone Definition in ScreenplaysTone is the emotional coloring of a screenplay. It shapes the audience’s expectations and perceptions of how to react. When you write with tone, you're conveying the story's attitude and informing the reader how they should take in the information and the character. Why Tone Dictates What HappensThe clearest way to view tone is as a product of what's happening in your story. In a goofy story, you wouldn't have people marching in a concentration camp. And in a drama, you probably wouldn't have a clown blowing a horn. But in Life is Beautiful, a comedic movie about the Holocaust, it all works because the tone stays consistent throughout. Still, the main tone lesson is that you want what happens in the script to be evocative of the reactions of the audience. So a grounded horror movie is going to have a different tone than Scream, which wants you to have fun. The tone is your internal logic that keeps your story from...
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