TFM 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Film Theory
20 Mar 2017
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Creates the movie"s story and writes the screenplay in its various stages either from scratch or by adapting another source. Builds the narrative structure and devises characters, action, dialogue, and settings. Adheres to a precisely prescribed format so that each page equals one minute of screen time. The total world of the story the events, characters, objects, setting, and sounds that form the world in which the story occurs. Diegetic: what we see and hear on the screen that come from inside the world of the story: characters, objects, settings, and sounds from the world of the story. Nondiegetic: what we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story: titles, credits, music (not originating from the world of the story) and voice-over or third-person narration. All of the explicit and implicit narrative events in the story and the diegesis, or total world in which the story occurs (implied events)
