Producing and directing the short film and video

... Beginning of the Script? The shorter the film or video is to be, the more license is given the scriptwriter to plunge right into the middle of things In this case, because the film is to be so short, ... Where?—In the case of a short script, with a simple adaptation 50 Writing the Short Film From the very beginning of the film industry, fiction and drama...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... discarded feathers from the sills of the parapets and adds them to a pile by his cot Icarus at work, trying ways to paste feathers onto his arm 58 Writing the Short Film Night Daedalus at the table, ... the boy to stay close behind him when they set out and—above all!—to be sure not to fly up toward the sun Its rays would surely melt the wax that holds their wings togethe...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... this story is set apart by its setting, the specific moral dilemma faced by the protagonist during the escape, and the ambivalence of the outcome The main challenges in writing the script would ... to the climax? The ending? During the two men’s descent down the high outside wall of the mansion, footsteps can be heard approaching in the yard below The youth loses...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... for screenwriting in general, it is particularly so for the short screenplay and for dialogue in the short screenplay To illustrate the process of “saying much in little,” here is the opening ... AS EXPOSITION In the fourth chapter, we discussed just how much exposition was buried in the first page or so of Thelma and Louise Reading the script or viewing the film for th...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... than writing a first draft, while for others, the process can be slow and painful We aim to lessen 79 80 Writing the Short Film the pain and increase the pleasure by suggesting that you follow the ... way of one of the exercises), included a catalyst, and offered some sort of ending, even if you not yet 78 Writing the Short Film consider it to be the right one Ch...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... 82 Writing the Short Film Mark the crises, ending with the climax Cut out each of these episodes, however short Lay the pieces out in their current order on a table or the floor, and then begin ... discussed for the first time Or even the second! But when people take the trouble to respond as best they can to your script, they are making you a gift, and your attitude 8...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 00:15

... Short Film Whether the character succeeds in the conflict, as in The Tortoise and the Hare,” or fails, as in The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” it is the struggle to overcome the barriers that is the ... play the role of the enemy As we have observed, the more forceful the antagonist in a story, the greater the struggle of the protagonist If the goal of the story i...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 00:15

... 96 Writing the Short Film On the other hand, if the husband is the main character, we want the story to focus on why a man has to betray his family for the state Here he may ... the relationship by highlighting the sense of trust on the part of the wife, and the planning and preparation of a report on the part of the husband The government-controlled medi...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 23:15

... characters The Plot Plot happens out in the world rather than inside a character The plot is the series of scenes that leads the character from dilemma to confrontation to 106 Writing the Short Film ... his or her appearance In other words, we can make the point about the obsession, and 104 Writing the Short Film if we wish, we can begin to explore the psycholo...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 23:15

... available and useful to the writer of the short film include the docudrama, the “mockumentary,” the comedy, the satire, the fable, the morality tale, the journey, and the event or ritual occasion ... referred to as genres the framing devices of the gangster film, melodrama, film noir or the horror film, and so forth This device isn’t as useful in the short...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 23:15

... free writing form, but it does involve the constraints of the scale of the subject and of the attendant idea The larger the subject, the more likely that the frame of satire will be effective The ... decision for the writer considering satire is whether the target of derision merits the treatment The form works best when the target is important or wellknown, beca...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... 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 narrative the story is ... 124 Writing the Short Film compelling the opening, the more likely it is that we will be engaged quickly with your story This is all the more true with a short s...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

... is at the very core of the dramatic idea Short films work best when the protagonist–antagonist relationship drives the plot of the screen story 132 Writing the Short Film CHARACTERIZATION The ... the Antagonist In the longer film, the relationship of the main character to the antagonist is used to create a heroic dimension in the main character The greate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 08:15