Category Archives: Lessons from the Silver Screen
Focusing the Viewpoint Camera Lens with help from Orson Scott Card, by Kristen C. Strocchia
November’s Silver screen theme brought to mind the book Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card. While it’s a book on craft not cinema, Card talks about using viewpoint like a movie camera lens and provides visual examples to … Continue reading
Going to Movie School: 5 Ways Films Can Help Your Writing, by Lori Ann Palma
In a post in March of this year, I focused on tips for writing realistic dialogue in YA fiction . One of the key points I mentioned was to turn on film subtitles (or closed captions) to improve your … Continue reading
YA Novel to Movie Book Club: Read ‘Em Before You See ‘Em, by Lori Ann Palma
Long before books focusing on teenagers and their issues became its own major category, Hollywood has understood the value of coming-of-age novels and adapted them for the silver screen. Over the past few years, YA has exploded into prime real … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 reasons why, a monster calls, before i fall, Books to Film. The 5th Wave, cassandra clare, fallen, fantastic beasts & where to find them, harry potter, holiday romance, j.k. rowling, jay asher, john green, lauren kate, lauren myracle, lauren oliver, let it snow, looking for alaska, lori ann palma, maureen johnson, miss peregrine's home for peculiar children, patrick ness, ransom riggs, rick yancey, roald dahl, steven spielberg, the bfg, the mortal instruments: city of bones, tim burton, YA
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