Mood and feeling generates an emotional resonance with the audience and connects our stories to their imagination.
What it means to them, is really none of our business, because the story is no longer ours!
Does your film create an emotional connection with your audience?
Perhaps mood and feeling should be one of the first considerations of screenwriters and filmmakers?
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I use mood, feelings, characters, situations, objects, places, and themes in my scripts to make emotional connections with my audience, Geoff Hall.
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I agree that what a film - or any piece of art - means to an audience or any person in an audience is none of the creator's business. Art occurs when there is a complete communication. If a tree falls in the forest and there's on one to hear, does it make a sound? No, it doesn't. Sound happens when something projective interacts with something receiptive - and art is the same way. As for mood and feeling being part of it - of course it's unavoidable that there is a mood projected in your film. I don't think that can be adequately conveyed in a script, outside of dialog and action like anything else. It's the director's province, no? So a writer-director, or a director working on an outside script will naturally do that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2zRZPLSlyU -- I found this about Kubrick.