Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 8 doc
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
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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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 20 docx
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 23 docx
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 25 docx
... politically active in the
community, whereas the main character is concerned with the
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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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 29 doc
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 30 doc
... 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.
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Later the fantastic is joined...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 33 docx
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 34 doc
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 35 docx
... 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...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 37 docx
... bye.
Marty hangs up the phone. Stephanie just looks him, as
if to say “Well?”
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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...