tailieunhanh - Writing the short film 3th - Part 17

Writing the short film 3th - Part 17. Cuốn sách này chủ yếu giúp tham khảo về phương pháp viết kịch bản, phim ảnh, video và các nhà làm phim video - những người đang phải đối mặt với sự cần thiết của việc viết một kịch bản tường thuật ngắn sao cho hay, mạch lạc, nội dung phim được truyền tải hết đến người xem. | 102 Writing the Short Film on national figures such as James Hoffa David Mamet s screenplay Hoffa and Malcolm X Spike Lee s film Malcolm X . In both cases published biographies were a major source of the material for the films. Robert Redford turned to the Norman McLean novella A River Runs Through It to make his film of the same name. Rob Reiner turned to the Aaron Sorkin play A Few Good Men for his film of that name. Francis Ford Coppola went back to the Bram Stoker original to make his own version of Dracula Bram Stoker s Dracula and James Ivory and Ismail Merchant looked to the E. M. Forster classic Howard s End to produce their film of the same name. Whatever the source all of these films have strong visual qualities and each has transcended the form and in some cases the quality of the original. Another quality of the film story involves the importance of genre films. Audiences know what to expect in terms of visual qualities from a Western a science fiction film a horror film or a musical. The result is the creation of a visual shorthand for the writer of these genre films. We bring a set of expectations to a Western such as Clint Eastwood s Unforgiven script by David Webb Peoples . We also know what to expect when we see the hor-ror science fiction film Alien 3 written by David Giler Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson at least in terms of the type of visualized action. But audiences also want to be surprised. While the writer has to adhere to particular narrative conventions to facilitate audience recognition he or she also has to throw a curve that surprises or shocks. The risk is that the writer will lose the audience if the story veers too far away from convention the gain can be a unique insight into an experience. This is precisely what happened in Neil Jordan s mixed-genre thriller melodrama The Crying Game and in Agnieszka Holland s satiric war story Europa Europa. However although the narrative strategy may shift the corresponding need for visual action