Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 23 docx
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 23 docx
... 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.
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ing about the danger of the climb, the time, and their health.
As you might imagine, there are any number of other external factors we
could introduce...
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 ... attempts a second-person voice for the charac-
ter, the position of character as interpreter? There are film stories in which
the main character alternates between the...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 25 docx
... in feature -film terms. If a more open-ended script is the choice,
the structure looks like Act I–Act II of the feature film.
There are other differences. In Act I in the feature film there are ... in the long film. Making the goal of the
main character more urgent means that there is less time for characteriza-
tion. A choice must be made quickly in the short film. C...
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 ... fre-
quently the film takes the point of view of voyeur, looking from the outside
in on these characters. His constant video filming supports this sense.
The stylized...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 35 docx
... proximity of the short film to the other arts.
Unlike the feature film, in the United States the short film has strong link-
ages to noncommercial arts the short story, the poem, the painting, the
photograph. ... another infor-
mation track.
Two characteristics of the nonlinear film particularly commend them-
selves to the purposes of the short film. Th...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 37 docx
... 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 the mourners, ... to crying.
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MARTY (CONT.)
when she’d hug you with those big arms . . .
and her smell . . . god, her smell!
In the...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 42 docx
... Scarlet, the other carries
the candle. They begin to climb the stairs, HUFFING and
PUFFING. A group of three PEOPLE come charging down
the stairs. They have party blowers in their mouths and
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the elevator and onto the floor.
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carry balloons. They rush past TOOTING and YELLING...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 45 docx
... LUCY
See you in the morning.
IRIS looks at LUCY, then turns off the old LAMP on the
night table.
IRIS
(whispering)
Sweet dreams.
The room is dark. The fan continues to hum, the clock
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venirs from cheesy midwestern and southern towns, and a small old radio.
Maybe a couple of yellowing photos lying around...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 47 docx
... details of the room and the
movement of the guests as the party wears on.
10. INT. LIVING ROOM—NIGHT
Sheila and Julie dance as Julie hammers away on the
organ. She plays very badly. The mother and ... rifle rests in the corner of the room.
Julie lingers in the doorway a moment. She enters and
closes the door behind her. She pushes over the photos
on the bedside table a...
Tài liệu Writing the short film 3th - Part 49 docx
... drawing of Santa lying in a pool of blood. Below,
in the hand writing of an eight-year-old, are the words:
SANTA LIES.
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... turkey and shove a
couple of potatoes down your gizzard, then be my
guest. Just leave me the fuck alone.
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STEVE
Aw yea...