Screen-To-Script: Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson (2009)

The screenplay, which is the film’s procedural planning document and blueprint outlining what will be seen and what will be heard, is also a poetic literary text informing the dialogue between itself and the film’s creators by broadcasting mood, sensation, and feeling, emerging as literary representations of what Michel Chion calls, the film’s “audiovisual phrasing”: the placement of primary audiovisual synch points crucial for meaning and dynamics.

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