Today I received my script for my Fiction Adaptation Unit from Helen. I found the feedback to be incredibly useful, and it made me aware of certain issues that I hadn't considered previously. For example, Helen didn't seem to get the symbolism of the handgun replacing the mobile phone at the end of the script. This isn't down to a lack of understanding of symbolism, but down to the way in which I wrote the script. This issue made me aware that perhaps in this draft I haven't been careful enough when differentiating between what is happening in the character's mind, and what is actually happening in reality.
As a writer who understood exactly what I was getting at, this wasn't a problem for me, but the fact that someone on the outside looking in didn't understand what was happening from my script is perhaps a suggestion that I need to go back over these areas and make it clear that what is happening is purely symbolic, and not happening in reality.
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