John Head

John is an emerging screenwriter and script consultant from Melbourne, Australia. For reasons that remain unclear, he spent the previous decade and a half as a professional mathematician. His recent work has placed in Scriptapalooza and Final Draft’s Big Break.

Thematic Structure: Umbilical Between Character And Meaning

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Screenwriting books evangelize the importance of theme, without properly investigating thematic structure. They rightly identify that it’s the source of meaning in a story. It’s what separates great scripts from good ones. But the same books invariably call for a thematic sentence, then move on as quickly as possible to a new topic. Why? Because … Read more