Summary: Alex and Nick discuss how to use your characters' perspectives and points-of-view to drive your episode narrative. From unreliable narrators and voice-overs, to POV on the page, see the world through your characters' eyes.<br> <br> What is a point-of-view in the context of a television story? How can you put your audience in the shoes of a character? What are interesting and unique ways of using POV as a narrative device? How can you translate a character's perspective to the page of a script? What are common problems with writing POVs?<br> <br> Plus, a major announcement about the podcast.<br> <br> The Paper Team looks ahead...<br> <br> SHOWNOTES<br> <br> Content<br> Paper Scraps: Paper Tease Announcement (00:45)<br> 1 - Defining Point-of-View and Perspective (03:07)<br> 2 - Interesting TV examples of POV as a narrative device (05:57)<br> 3 - Using point-of-view on the page and common problems (21:53)<br> Takeaways and Next Week On (32:51)<br> <br> Links<br> <a href="https://www.tv-calling.com/papertease/">Paper Tease - TV Script Teaser Competition</a><br> <a href="https://www.tv-calling.com/analyzing-great-tv-scenes-case-studies-of-deep-space-nine-the-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-the-good-place-the-good-wife-lost-and-the-simpsons-pt77/">"Analyzing Great TV Scenes" (PT77)</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon">Rashomon</a><br> <a href="http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ugly_Truth">"The Ugly Truth" (2x16 - Farscape)</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Film_Studies">"Critical Film Studies" (2x19 - Community)</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown_(2002_TV_series)">Boomtown</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Yost">Graham Yost</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affair_(TV_series)">The Affair</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Little_Lies_(TV_series)">Big Little Lies</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_(TV_series)">Peep Show</a><br> <a href="https://www.tv-calling.com/nonlinear-storytelling-pt70/">"Nonlinear Storytelling" (PT70)</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Special thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexSwitzky21">Alex Switzky</a> for helping us edit this episode.<br> <br> If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at <a href="http://paperteam.co/itunes">paperteam.co/itunes</a>! :)<br> <br> You can find Paper Team on Twitter:<br> Alex - <a href="https://twitter.com/TVCalling">@TVCalling</a><br> Nick - <a href="https://twitter.com/_njwatson">@_njwatson</a><br> If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co<br> <br>
