COMM 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cinematic Techniques, Log Line, Dramatic Structure
1 Oct 2016
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Complexity in story and character comes from the writing. Character(s): fictional, based on reality, or real combines all three. Events, in some order: chronological, thematic, imagined, arbitrary. Causes and effects: usually based on character goals, usually via conflicts. Dramatic conflict is key for creating an interesting story. Time can be conveyed as past, present, and future. Cinema combines both forms storytelling, hence having a wider rage of narrative techniques at its disposal. Uses social actors to tell a story or present a thesis that has happened, or is happening in the real world. Non-conventional structure, may or may not be concerned w/ telling a story, and is exploratory in its cinematic techniques. Logline: a one sentence, enticing description of the movie"s story, including. The situation the characters find themselves in. Introduce the main character(s) and where the story takes place. Tell what the big problem is going to be. Make the listener curious about what happens next.
