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Four Points:
1. Learn how to tell a story (most important) 2. Learn how to write a script (very important) 3. Learn how the "business" works (very important) 4. Follow their rules (critical) ...
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Mamet: “Dumbo is an example of a perfect movie. Cartoons are ... much better to watch, for people who want to direct, than movies. In the old cartoons, the artists realized the essence of the theory of montage ... Everything was based on the imagination. The shot we see in the film is the shot the artist saw in his imagination. So, if you watch cartoons, you can learn a great deal about how to choose shots, how to tell the story in pictures, and how to cut.” (p. 80)
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For the basics of the dramatic composition see 200X files Some samples (my students): Kyle (screenplay formats) I have to add more files to Part One: Style, Cinema, Concept, Analysis!
facts: The script of Pulp Fiction, for example, sold over 50,000 copies. Amarcord from Amazon.com INITIAL OUTLINE: Write an initial scene-by-scene outline of your story. Describe the action and characters briefly. (This is an exercise more for you than other readers) Look at the flow of action. Evaluate what additional scenes you might need by each ACT. TREATMENT EXERCISE: You are to write a minimum 4 page narrative prose treatment for a feature-length screenplay. Follow Field's suggestions for describing the action of your screenplay by each act (see p.51). Identify the narrative actions that would serve as the "plot points" or turning points for ACT I and II. STEP OUTLINE: Expand your initial outline and treatment. Number each scene an use sluglines (INT-HOUSE-DAY). Describe the action for each scene. Fairy Tales & Drama Analysis * Mindstar has released a free script writing software package. The Cinergy Script Editor is available as a standalone program, or built-in to the larger Cinergy Motion Picture Production System. The script editor creates industry standard formatting for motion picture scripts. Scripts created with the Cinergy Script Editor are immediately compatible with the production management features of Cinergy Version 5. The free download at cinergy "Î ôîðìå ñöåíàðèÿ", 1929 (about screenplay -- ru) Ñöåíàðèé, ïî ñóùåñòâó, åñòü íå îôîðìëåíèå ìàòåðèàëà, à ñòàäèÿ ñîñòîÿíèÿ ìàòåðèàëà íà ïóòÿõ ìåæäó òåìïåðàìåíòíîé êîíöåïöèåé âûáðàííîé òåìû è åå îïòè÷åñêèì âîïëîùåíèåì.
Ñîàâòîð ñâîèìè ñðåäñòâàìè çàïå÷àòëåâàåò â ñöåíàðèè ðèòì ñâîåé êîíöåïöèè. Ïðèõîäèò ðåæèññåð è ïåðåâîäèò ðèòì ýòîé êîíöåïöèÿ íà ñâîé ÿçûê, íà êèíîÿçûê; íàõîäèò êèíåìàòîãðàôè÷åñêèé ýêâèâàëåíò ëèòåðàòóðíîìó âûñêàçûâàíèþ.  ýòîì êîðåíü äåëà. À âîâñå íå â ïåðåëîæåíèè â öåïü êàðòèí, àíåêäîòè÷åñêîé öåïè ñîáûòèé ñöåíàðèÿ. Èíîãäà íàì ÷èñòî ëèòåðàòóðíàÿ ðàññòàíîâêà ñëîâ â ñöåíàðèè çíà÷èò áîëüøå, ÷åì äîòîøíîå ïðîòîêîëèðîâàíèå âûðàæåíèÿ ëèö ïðîòîêîëèñòîì. " âîçäóõå ïîâèñëà ìåðòâàÿ òèøèíà". ×òî â ýòîì âûðàæåíèè îáùåãî ñ êîíêðåòíîé îñÿçàåìîñòüþ çðèòåëüíîãî ÿâëåíèÿ? Ãäå êðþê â òîì âîçäóõå, íà êîòîðûé íàäëåæèò ïîâåñèòü òèøèíó? À ìåæäó òåì ýòî - ôðàçà, âåðíåå, ñòàðàíèÿ ýêðàííî âîïëîòèòü ýòó ôðàçó. [...] Ñöåíàðèé ñòàâèò ýìîöèîíàëüíûå òðåáîâàíèÿ. Åãî çðèòåëüíîå ðàçðåøåíèå äàåò ðåæèññåð. È ñöåíàðèñò âïðàâå ñòàâèòü åãî ñâîèì ÿçûêîì. Èáî, ÷åì ïîëíåå áóäåò âûðàæåíî åãî íàìåðåíèå, òåì áîëåå ñîâåðøåííûì áóäåò ñëîâåñíîå îáîçíà÷åíèå. [ Eisenstein ] (translation?) screen:
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Two script samples (left) = see forms directory @ film.vtheatre.net
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I have to make "the cycles of making films" more transparent; after the scripting, comes part 2 -- Preproduction (do not go for it, if you do not have a script ready, only REWRITES are for preproduction).Part 3. Production -- oh, you better be ready for it, folks!
They say that most of the independent filmmakers fail on the next stage -- Part 4. Postproduction, they run out of money!
All right, here is the list for SCRIPTING:
Dramatic Analysis or the basics -- 200X files (art, theatre, music through film)!
SCRIPT
Dramatic Analysis
structure (3 Principles)
1. story and Plot
2. character (hero)
3. idea
Texture (3 Principles)
1. Language
2. music
3. spectacle123Composition
1. Exposition
2. Climax
Resolution
In film, we measure everything against the last #6 principle -- spectacle!
Concept
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Style
Cinema
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A P O C A L Y P S E N O W Original screenplay by John Milius. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "HEART OF DARKNESS". This draft by Francis Ford Coppola. December 3, 1975. This is an early version of the screenplay. It's quite different from the final version but very interesting anyway. It includes f ex The French plantation scene, which was actually filmed, but later cut from the movie. 1 PRIMEVAL SWAMP - EARLY DAWN It is very early in the dawn - blue light filters through the jungle and across a foul swamp. A mist clings to the trees. This could be the jungle of a million years ago. Our VIEW MOVES CLOSER, through the mist, TILTING DOWN to the tepid water. A small bubble rises to the surface; then another. Suddenly, but quietly, a form begins to emerge; a helmet. Water and mud pour off revealing a set of beady eyes just above the mud. Printed on a helmet, in a psychedelic hand, are the words: "Gook Killer." The head emerges revealing that the tough-looking soldier beneath has exceptionally long hair and beard; he has no shirt on, only bandoliers of ammunition - his body is painted in an odd camouflage pattern. He looks to the right; he looks to the left; he looks INTO CAMERA, and slowly sinks back into the swamp, disapperaring completely. Our VIEW HOLDS, We begin to HEAR natural, though unrecognizable JUNGLE SOUNDS, far off in the distance. We PAN TO REVEAL a clump of logs half submerged in the swamp; and part of what seems to be a Falstaff beer can in the mud. A hand reaches out, and the beer can disappears. As we TILT UP, we NOTICE that the log is hollow and houses the rear of a M-60 machine gun, hand painted in a paisley design. Now the VIEW MOVES AWAY, ACROSS the ancient growth, PAST the glimmer of what seems to be another soldier hiding in ambush, wearing an exotic hat made from birds and bushes. ACROSS to a dark trail where the legs of those in black pajamas move silently across our ever TIGHTENING VIEW. Their feet, boots and sandals leave no impression; make no sound. A slight flicker of light reveals a pair of eyes in the foliage across the path, waiting and watching. The VIEW PUSHES ALONG WITH the Vietnamese, MOVING FASTER AND FASTER WITH them, until suddenly, directly in front about ten feet away, an enormous AMERICAN clad in rags and bushes and holding a 12 gauge automatic shotgun casually at his side, steps in front of them. He smiles laconically, and BLASTS OUT FIVE SHOTS that rip THROUGH US. By the second shot, the whole jungle blazes out with AUTOMATIC FIRE. Out VIEW TURNS as the men around us are thrown and torn, screaming and scattering into the jungle. More AMERICANS appear; unexplainably, out of the growth. It is now that we fully SEE the bizarre manner in which they are dressed. Some wear helmets, others wear strange hats made from feathers and parts of animals. Some of them have long savage-looking hair; other crew-cut or completely shaved; they wear bandoliers, flak jackets, shorts and little else. They wear Montagnard sandals or no shoes at all, and their bodies and faces are painted in bizarre camouflage patterns. They appear one with the jungle and mist, FIRING INTO US as they move. The soldier we saw earlier emerges from the swamp, dripping mud, his MACHINE GUN BLASTING FIRE. We begin to move quickly with one Vietnamese, breathlessly running for his life; we MOVE INTO the jungle with him, only to be impaled on a large spear of a smiling AMERICAN painted and wearing feathers like an Indian. OUR VIEW FALLS WITH him to the ground, STARING UPWARDS, as FLAME and EXPLODING MUD scatter above us. Men scream and die around us. The screams amid the GUNFIRE and EXPLOSIONS are piercing and terrible, as though the jungle itself is frightened. An AMERICAN wearing a jungle hat with a large Peace Sign on it, wearing war paint, bends TOWARD US, reaching down TOWARD US with a large knife, preparing to scalp the dead. OUR VIEW MOVES AWAY, along with the running sandals of a Vietnamese soldier, MOVING FASTER AND FASTER, only to be stopped by still another of the savage-looking AMERICANS with primitive ornamentation, wearing only a loin-cloth and green beret. He opens his flame-thrower directly ON US and the NVA soldier and we are incinerated in flame, bright psychedelic orange-red flame. Outrageous, loud, electric ROCK MUSIC OVERWHELMS the SOUNDTRACK : MAIN TITLE : APOCALYPSE NOW
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SETTING
The story is set in Texas just before the First World War
CAST OF CHARACTERS
BILL: A young man from Chicago following the harvest. ABBY: The beautiful young woman he loves. CHUCK: The owner of a vast wheat ranch (“bonanza”) in the Texas Panhandle. URSULA: Abby’s younger sister, a reckless child of 14. BENSON: The bonanza foreman, an enemy of the newcomers. MISS CARTER: Chief domestic at the Belvedere, Chuck’s home. McLEAN: Chuck’s accountant. GEORGE: A young pilot who interests Ursula.A PREACHER, A DOCTOR, AN ORGANIST, VARIOUS HARVEST HANDS, LAWMEN, VAUDEVILLIANS, etc.
“Troops of nomads swept over the country at harvest time like a visitation of locusts, reckless young fellows, handsome, profane, licentious, given to drink, powerful but inconstant workmen, quarrelsome and difficult to manage at all times. They came in the season when work was plenty and wages high. They dressed well, in their own peculiar fashion, and made much of their freedom to come and go.”
“They told of the city, and sinister and poisonous jungles all cities seemed in their stories. They were scarred with battles. They came from the far-away and unknown, and passed on to the north, mysterious as the flight of locusts, leaving the people of Sun Prairie quite as ignorant of their real names and characters as upon the first day of their coming.”Hamlin Garland, Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)
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