Film Premiere
My short film “Trespassing” will be having its premiere at the Atlanta Shortsfest, happening on July 7-8.
I’ll be there!
http://www.atlantashortsfest.com
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Film Premiere
My short film “Trespassing” will be having its premiere at the Atlanta Shortsfest, happening on July 7-8.
I’ll be there!
http://www.atlantashortsfest.com
How to write comedy.
The audience goes “I know the rules!” and then we delight in how we play the game.
In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," fir
In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic “situations,” first running them down in outline form, then describing each more completely and offering possible variations. Hill, who published more than one aid to struggling “scenarists,” positioned himself as an authority on the types of stories that would work well onscreen.
Terribly Happy
I was watching one of my favorite movies, Terribly Happy, when a major development in the very limited understanding of story happened in my brain.
I highly suggest you check out the trailer. I describe it to friends as “what Hot Fuzz would be like if the Coen Brothers had made it.” Coincidentally, it’s on Hulu right now.
I think I always look for a break into the 2nd Act to be some sort of external change that happens TO a character. In Terribly Happy, the life-changing action happened before the movie started.
For the first act, we have learned HOW a character is, but not WHY. Then, at 34 minutes, we learn that our protagonist Hansen has pulled a gun on his estranged wife. We have seen hints at some past damage-- he has a photograph of his daughter, he repeatedly calls his ex-wife-- but we don’t know the backstory until this point. We know some trauma has deeply affected him, and now we see it.
This is a fantastic roll-out of information. This is great structure. The inciting incident has already occurred, but the audience is just catching up to the characters. Our revelation was not in Hansen’s world or even in his mind. It was what the audience knew about Hansen that he had known all along.
And, just like we should expect from a break into the second act, Hansen makes a new choice.
It was at this point in the movie that I was reminded of “Beginnings - Setting a Story in Motion” by Michael Arndt, the screenwriter of Toy Story 3.
Hansen will be asked the same question he was asked in the first act (should he punish a juvenile shoplifter with corporal punishment, as the locals suggest, or should he abide by the law, as his nature as the local law enforcement requires?), but now he will make the opposite choice he has made before.
He will make the FUN choice.
He will make the WRONG choice.
And we WANT him to do it.
Story comes from the character’s desires and fears.
First we show the Character doing what they LOVE*
Then we show the Character’s “Grand Flaw”
The flaw comes from taking their love too far
Then we warn about conflict to come
Then the world radically changes
Their LOVE* is taken from them
Their expectations about the future are taken from them
And, to add insult to injury, the world seems fundamentally unfair
Now the Character has two roads:
If they make the right choice, then we have no story
But we want them to make the unhealthy choice, because it is what they LOVE*
The sands have shifted and we need your original thinking now more than ever.
There are too many good quotes to pull from this article, so I’m not going to try.
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A few before and after color grading samples from the independent feature film "The House On Pine Street." This film was colored by Taylre Jones at Grade located in Kansas City.
Director(s): Aaron and Austin Keeling Director of Photography: Juan Sebastian Baron Colorist: Taylre Jones
For more information about color work feel free to contact us at [email protected]
To learn more about the film, feel free to check out their website! thehouseonpinestreet.com/
What is the “Lean Forward Moment”?
When does something change that makes the audience pay attention?
Audiences react when things CHANGE.
They react when:
A piece of music is introduced where no music was there before
We go from a WIDE to a CU
You have no sound when you had sound before
There are tons of ways like this to make the audience involved in the scene
This is when you can deliver MAXIMUM MESSAGE
Oh jump cut, you of a million masturbatory critical studies exercises, why do I love you?
Trespassing
I wrote a short film recently, and I'm shooting first week of January in the Atlanta area. I'm currently looking at cast and crew options, so if you or someone you know might be interested, let me know.
You can see the script from the link below:
Trespassing
It's based on a true story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2618100/Court-releases-audio-chilling-murders-two-teen-burglars-recorded-65-year-old-killer-set-trap-basement.html
It's a heavy concept, not your typical punchline-oriented short film. I'm really excited about it and believe it has a lot of potential.
Thanks.
David Lynch on Storytelling
I never cease to be fascinated by this man's mind.
Read the whole list: http://filmmakermagazine.com/88420-ten-lessons-on-filmmaking-from-david-lynch/#.VHOn4ItsAqY
Thanks to Nicole Jones Dion @Novaris for this!
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Jim Jarmusch is the man.