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Cinema ClipAmerican film was started in Fort Lee, New Jersey. (1914)Film moved to California. (1918)Cliffhangers – Palisades, big cliffs in New Jersey lots of scenic area to film.A lot more optimal to move out to California because of the climate.“The Great Train Robbery” – EdisonFirst film to use a close up“Tilly’s Punctured Romance”Film was produced by Matt SennettCharlie Chaplain - first feature comedy ever filmedVaudeville TheatreVery first feature color film was made in: 1922Two toned Technicolor: they used only red and green to create their color palette for the film.Stopped making color films because of the Great Depression“The Toll of The Sea” 1922People started laughing at sound films“The Jazz Singer” 1927First feature sound filmAfter this movie came out, every studio tried to get into sound films“King Kong” 1933Two elements of special effects:Compositing of two imagesStop motion“Star Wars” Original film – 1977First film to use 3D wire frame graphicsFrom An Idea to Story – Chapter OneImportant Terms:Dramatization: To act and react moment to moment and express or repeat vividly, emotionally, or strikingly through physical doing.Central Character (protagonist): This is the character that the audience will experience the story through their eyes and al the other characters revolve around this character.Dramatic Situation (premise): What makes this day extraordinary to the life of the central character? What propels them into action and ultimately will change them forever after the events of the story?Central Dramatic Question: This is what emerges from the reactions of a given character in a particular situation.Actions and Stakes: What does your central character stand to lose or gain through the obstacles that the story forces them to encounter?Resolution and what it all means: The ultimate fate/ outcome for the central character through the story world and where the character learns to grow as an individual.Conflict-driven story: A character needs to accomplish a goal, encounters obstacles and must struggle to get what they need.Opposing force (obstacles): these are the people, psychological, or physical difficulties that the central character must overcome to reach their ultimate goal, their super objective.Antagonist: The person or thing that has the exact opposite goals of the central character and as such is in direct opposition of the central character achieving their goals.Plot: Order of events in the story.Specificity: Details that make the story uniqueIdeas within limitations: You have to think of something within the limitations of what you have.Story Scale & Film lengths: Producers put limitationsProduction Time: How much time you actually have to produce the film, do something that is manageable within that time.Financial Resources:“10 minute film school” Robert Rodriguez$7,000 filmShot the movie silent – had actors hold their fingers up to show the sceneFlash frame (stops & starts film again)Shot 25 rolls of film for the entire movieDefinitions:Screenplay: expression of the story, characters, actions, locations, and tone of your film written in a specialized dramatic script form.Script Development: process of working and reworking your film’s story material, adding, cutting, or refining details along the way.Concept: brief outline of the basic elements involved in your story (who is the main character? How does it end?)Treatment: written in present tense, as the film will unfold for the audience, scene by scene.Narrative beat: dramatic event in which the action, decisions, or revelations of that moment move the plot forward either by intensifying it or sending it in a new direction.Six formatting elements used in screenplay:TitleScene headingsStage directionsDialoguePersonal directionsCharacter cuesOVERVIEWLogline: think of character (protagonist & antagonist), conflict, and conclusion or resolution and tell the audience “what your story is.” A one-sentence description that boils the script down to its essential dramatic narrative in as succinct a manner as possible.Treatment: This should be a prose scene by scene description of the plot, written in present tense, as the film will unfold to the audience. It should include brief descriptions of the major characters and locations. You should write a few sentences for each major dramatic event or narrative beat in your story.Pitch: A concise verbal (sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a story generally made by a screenwriter or director to a producer or studio executive in the hope of attracting development finance to pay for the writing of the screenplay.The Twilight Zone: Used pitch, different backgrounds with different stories, used creative pitch to make the story uniqueBen Stiller and Vince Vaughn: passionate, mocking pitching, they enacted physical performanceJerry Bruckheimer FilmsAndrew Lazar teaches how to pitch a movie: title should tell you what a movie is in one or two wordsThe ScreenplayScreenplay: The literary expression of the story, characters, actions, locations, and tone of your film written in a specialized dramatic script format.Script Development: The process of working and reworking in the film’s story material, adding, cutting, or refining details along the way. Takes at least seven triesAuthor’s Draft: The first complete version of the narrative in proper screenplay format.Final Draft: The final version that the author is happy with before it is turned into a shooting script.Writing is RewritingGeneral rule: You will write and rewrite seven drafts of a script before you have a producible screenplay.Shooting Script: *DO NOT include –ly words in your script. Scene by scene, contains specific information about the visualization, version of the screenplay you take into production meaning it is the script from which your creative team will work and from which the film will be shot.Doctor Who Clip: SpecificityConcept: A very brief outline of the basic elements involved in your story. It describes, in no more than a few sentences, the essential dramatic engine that will drive the movie: Who is your main character? What is the central dramatic question around which all the action revolves? And how does it end?Narrative Beat: A dramatic event in which the action, decisions, or revelations of that moment move the plot forward either by intensifying it or by sending it in a new direction.Dramatize: To externalize and reveal the internal


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