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Question: Apparently every good writer should set the tone of the writing—the author’s voice....
If Im doing a screenplay, the only voice you will hear are the character's. So how can I give it an 'author's voice'?
Answers: Apparently every good writer should set the tone of the writing—the author’s voice....
If Im doing a screenplay, the only voice you will hear are the character's. So how can I give it an 'author's voice'?
If you are writing a screenplay, forget about the author's voice. Your focus should be on staging the action of your script, since it will be a reading or spec script and not a shooting script. So you will be using character movement to establish pacing and help the reader visualize your story.
I recommend going to a web site like Script-O-Rama and downloading some scripts by good screenwriters like Shane Black and William Goldman, to get an idea of how it's done.
Scripts have little or no narrative, so there is no opportunity for establishing an authorial voice.
Watch Adaptation with Nicholas Cage.
If the reader is ONLY hearing the characters as they speak, then it's first person.
You could narrate. They do it in Stranger Than Fiction. You just have to establish the narrating in the beginning so that when people hear the voice later on in the movie, they're aren't taken back by it & saying to themselves "who the hell was that?" Just do small parts for the author to narrate in the beginning & then let the scenes play out until you want to add more of the 'author's voice.