Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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Color as a Storytelling Device . Top Story - June 2024.
Think of the color green for a moment. Free associate the meaning of the color. In societal terms, green means go. Stop lights are a universal totem, red for stop, yellow for slow down, green for go. The cultural-societal association of these colors to specific meanings allows you as a writer to use these colors as a storytelling device. You can use peoples associations with color as a way of demonstrating something about your character visually. Green also has a cultural association, in America anyway, with money. Money is green and thus if you code your character with green and create a visual association with money, you've revealed character traits.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Writers
Visual Shorthand in Storytelling
Let's talk about how to make something mean something that it might otherwise not mean. Investing meaning into something is a great visual shorthand and the best filmmakers understand and use visual shorthand to avoid having to bluntly exposit important character information. In this article, I want to discuss a piece of visual shorthand that is a strong explanation of the concept for novice writers interested in learning about visual shorthand.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Writers
Juxtaposition as a Storytelling Device
Let's talk about Juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is a great storytelling tool that you can use to expand your storytelling options. It can provide the jumping off point for your plot, a subplot, or it could be used to add a minor character detail that further fleshes out your character and their personality. So, what is Juxtaposition? It's taking two seemingly different concepts and crossing them together. Place two things next to one another and compare and contrast them. This could be physical items or concepts.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Writers
