Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 8 doc

... chocolate. 6 This is another case in which a character is described not just by the way in which she is dressed, though that is nicely done in few words, but by the 42 Writing the Short Film Ch04.qxd ... loses a job—any of these events could be a powerful catalyst moving the protago- nist into action, into change. In a short film, we are usually introduced to the protagoni...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 17:20

... makes the character an observer; a second-person position places the character in the role of guide throughout the story; finally, the first-person position places the character in the middle of the ... with the characters in the context of their goals. Short films, therefore, do not tend to develop complex relationships between characters, but they do rely on complex ch...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... in the short film than in the longer dra- matic form. The most obvious reason is the best one: there is too little time available to the writer to allow the action to develop on its own. Whether ... story. The other genres (the fable, for example) require some realism, but not so much that it crowds out the fantastic, the supernatural, from the screen story. 1 48 Wr...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... politically active in the community, whereas the main character is concerned with the 1 58 Writing the Short Film Ch13.qxd 9/27/04 6:10 PM Page 1 58 spiritual—as opposed to the everyday—life of ... the issue of res- olution has been the end point of the story. However, a number of story- tellers have begun to opt for no resolution—or to put it another way, for an 16...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... fabulist in their content that realism is actually beside the point. A similar quality infuses the majority of Chaplin’s work. At the other extreme, the films of the Marx Brothers dwell on the anarchy that ... to the violence and irrationality, even madness, of the dis- solution of the country in the late 1 980 s—a 40-year descent from hell to a deeper hell. The journey...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... in the end a byprod- uct of the scale of the plot. Whether that plot is a war, a difficult journey, or other challenge, the ritualization of the confrontations with the opposing forces makes the ... beyond belief, and yet together they set the moral parameters of this story. 194 Writing the Short Film Ch15.qxd 9/27/04 6:11 PM Page 194 Later the fantastic is joined...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 15:16

... of the four. But as in the first two, the nar- ration is a voice-over. In the last of the odes, “Ode to the Table,” the narra- tion is sung, as a choral piece. The goal is to make the table the ... the tourist boats that peddle the story of Paris as they glide up and down the Seine. Many of the great sites the Eiffel Tower, the glass pyramid leading into the L...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 15:16

... as the story of the week, the micro- story—has altered the look and story shape of the hour-long TV film. More recently, the 30-and 60-second commercial have begun to take on the shape of the ... viewpoint, the short film is best viewed as an investment in the ‘filmmaker’s professional develop- ment. The lack of commercial potential remains the greatest limiter to...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 15:16

... capacity for the voice of the writer and the director. First, we will address the proximity of the short film to the other arts. Unlike the feature film, in the United States the short film has strong ... both qualities of the commercial that have increasingly migrated into the short film. THE NONLINEAR FILM Another directional influence on the short...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 15:16

... bye. Marty hangs up the phone. Stephanie just looks him, as if to say “Well?” 242 Writing the Short Film App-A.qxd 9/27/04 6:01 PM Page 242 MARTY (CONT.) (quickly) My grandmother had a heart ... goes up to the podium. MIDDLE-AGED MAN (composed) David was my brother, my business partner, my closest friend . . . Marty jots some notes. An OLD WOMAN quietly sobs, but the rest of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 15:16