Each project explores a part of a territory - the one that the writer-director feels a necessity to explore.
To me, the role of the consultant is to provide a specific map for this project so that the author and their producer can work in harmony and with a common language. This map contains within itself the tools of dramaturgy but is not reduced to them : questions of emotional impact, meaning, tone, artistic direction are just as crucial. It is in this spirit that I see my work as a script consultant.
The only indisputable thing is that the reader must be able to imagine and feel something alive — something that has an impact. If there is a journey to consider in a story, the only necessary journey is that of the viewer.
Each consultation consists of a meeting lasting at least several hours, ideally in the presence of both the author and the producer. At the end of this meeting, a debrief is offered to ensure that the directions and choices discussed are sufficiently clear and simple to be carried out by the author.
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