Discussion: Pro's and Con's of Spotlight

[writingspirit]

@amberose

I know a lot of people will probably say that you need to have really good narration for a spotlight story to be good, but I think it’s more so about having the type of plot that works with spotlight - which doesn’t always mean heavy/detailed narration. Idk how to explain what I mean other than to say think of thriller or horror stories where there’s a stalker watching the main character from the shadows. In cinematic, you can direct that scene to really spook your readers. But with spotlight, since you can only have one character on the screen at one time, it wouldn’t have the same effect.

This is a good point. Even just looking at it conceptually, I think comedy in spotlight and comedy in cinematic for example are completely different beasts. What would work for visual comedy doesn’t transfer over to spotlight or vice versa.