WRITING THE SHORT FILM (Third Edition)

... from the Aristotelian con- cerns of their predecessors. Consequently, the relevance of these books to the writing of the short film posits an analogy between the structure of the short film and ... character. There is no time in the short film for the kind of pauses for elabo- ration of character so often deployed in the long film. The freedom of short fi...

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... follows the climax 3 ; it is the point at which the protagonist realizes where the dramatic action has taken him or her through the course of the events that have made up the 48 Writing the Short Film ... 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...

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... perch on the open parapets. Imagine a pile of the feathers he’s gathered and the ways he invents to play with them—trying to make them float, keeping them up with his breath, pasting them onto ... briefly describes a full scene—ideally a scene that furthers the action. 56 Writing the Short Film Ch05.qxd 9/27/04 6:04 PM Page 56 The writing of a story outline often begins...

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... under close guard. Therefore, the prison and his captors are the antagonists. What is the protagonist’s situation at the beginning of the script? The time is 1862, early in the Civil War. Dedalus ... 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 lose...

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... a short script by Pat Cooper, one of the coauthors of this book, in first-draft and then in rewrite form. The script is called “Annie’s Flight,” and its protagonist is a 70 Writing the Short Film ... her, huh? 68 Writing the Short Film Ch06.qxd 9/27/04 6:05 PM Page 68 THOMAS Uh, not yet. Chuck faces Thomas. CHUCK Fupper, you’ve got to take the bull by the balls. H...

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... THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE CHANGES The father’s inner action is to get the mother to tell the child about the divorce without his having to be present, while the mother’s is to ensure that they ... specific 74 Writing the Short Film Ch06.qxd 9/27/04 6:05 PM Page 74 and authentic story material, rather than the lifeless copies of copies that make for hackwork. To write...

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... 81 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 to shuffle them about. ... it, and introduce details as the audience would come upon them in viewing the film. 82 Writing the Short Film Ch07.qxd 9/27/04 6:05 PM Page 82 In Sob Story, Matthew Gold...

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... 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 is to portray heroic behavior, the ... 91 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 ba...

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... assume that the woman is our main charac- ter. We needn’t see the march itself but can confine the film to the prepara- tions for the march and the aftermath. The scenes should clarify the relationship ... near home. The closer the spies, the more intense the story will be. We can distract the audience from the true nature of the neighbor by mak- ing the neig...

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... does not achieve his or her goal. The success of one character and the failure of the other links directly to the advancement of the plot. 106 Writing the Short Film Ch09.qxd 9/27/04 6:07 PM ... people. The visual we see is the bread knife in the hand of the main character. On the sound track we lose the gossip and hear only the word “knife.” Here, sound and...

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