A gaffer once told Diana that while his job as technically to manage the lighting, he was “really in charge of the shadows,” which struck her as being particularly profound, and in a way that applies to a whole lot more, artistically, than just the making of motion pictures. ALL kinds of design employ the idea of light and shadow, and that includes literature. You control where your reader is looking, as well as what they’re looking at–and how they feel about what they’re seeing, and ‘how the light falls’ is one of the more important tools for doing this. Diana will discuss how to do this with words on the page.
