Story Telling Unit-screenwriting lesson 3

Story Telling With Pictures
180Degree rule
Where you position a camera in a scene is where you place the audience in the scene
Can be outside as an observer etc-eg Michael Mann director

Clip from Good Will Hunting
180 degree rule
Wide into a two shot medium
The camera very much plays the role of the observer from the characters perspective.
Line going through them as a 180 degree axis- camera will always go around it.
Ultimately want the audience it be with you

The shining crosses the line
Screen left to screen right
Story telling device to suggest he's going mad
Jumps back
Really disorientates the audience
Wednesday 12th-crossing the line project
Working in small groups we will plan and shoot a short film based on the provided script "crossing the line"
Edit and upload to journal


Steve Coombs

Plot is what happens
Story s the significance of what happens
Stick to one story but you can play with that story
Always use buts in the stories and characters. Never use this happened and then this happened and then this-use this happened but this happened therefore this happened
Buts and and dramatic irony a make he stories significant
Not quite what you expect
It's going to be a revolution

When talking the audience where do you want them to be?
Ahead or behind-never exactly where they should be
Mine will have the audience behind-the but of my character
Beginning middle and end are fundamental

Rain man
Start off behind the plot but soon catch up with this first will meeting. We know that he doesn't get on with his dad, they had an argument over a car and his $3million estate is going to his trustee
By the second clip we know he has an autistic lob lost brother who did get to drive the car.

Tin men
Can crash between two men
We know he's a conman
We know his wife troubles him

Fleabag
Talks to the audience throughout
Then back to dialogue
Predicts what happens before it happens
An opening that grabs your attention

There are millions of openings, through up conflicts
By the middle have a plot twist and character development

Psyco
Starts off as a crime getaway
She takes the money Friday and drives away until Monday when people check it and in which time she'll be long gone.
Is cliché but wasn't back then
Plot twist-films gone from one genre to a completely different genre

Tin man part 2
Met in supermarket and claimed his wife doesn't know how to cook anymore, and her husbands never in.
He knows it's the little guys wife
When he phones little guy his reaction is that he's welcome to her.
Film changes when he now lives with her and grows to like her

Beginnings-big but
Middle-story you thought you were being told falls on its axis
End-big and significant, can be a cliff hanger on conclusive

Moments are what keeps something going
Count your moments
Which bits of the script are your moments
If they have to think about it then it means there's no moments coming round the corner
If they have to think about dialogue
If they have to think about stuff they will hate it
If you have moments they can be put together by Steve, if not he's got nothing to work with

Moments
Structure
Dialogue
Dramatic irony
Etc.

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