Script consultant Linda Seger discusses the importance of subtext. ROLLING TAPE explores the world of indie film & screenwriting with the top experts in the industry.
"Subtext is the underlying truth covered up by words or gestures...the roots or the bottom of the iceberg." --Linda Seger
DR. LINDA SEGER created and defined the script consulting profession in 1981 when she began her business, based on her doctoral dissertation about what makes a good script a great script. Since then, she has worked on over 2000 scripts, and with writers, producers, directors, and executives from six continents, including Peter Jackson, William Kelley, and Ray Bradbury. She is the author of 9 books on screenwriting and has given seminars on screenwriting in over 30 countries around the world. In the last eight years, she has also written 6 books on spirituality, (2 to be published in 2017), based partly on her degrees in theology where she explored how drama communicates values and themes, how spiritual principles are expressed through art and business, and the relationship of the creative process and spirituality. Dr. Seger lives in the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs with her wonderful husband and a magnificent cat.
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