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Digital filmmaking

Digital filmmaking. Session 1. Cinematic Storytelling. The Art of Engagement. Grab Attention! Hold Attention! Change Feelings! Change Understanding!. Cinematic Engagement. The Evolution of Cinematic Conventions. The Early Cinema. From Convention to Cinematic Language.

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Digital filmmaking

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  1. Digital filmmaking

  2. Session 1 Cinematic Storytelling

  3. The Art of Engagement • Grab Attention! • Hold Attention! • Change Feelings! • Change Understanding!

  4. Cinematic Engagement The Evolution of Cinematic Conventions

  5. The Early Cinema

  6. From Convention to Cinematic Language

  7. From Language To Cinematic Literacy

  8. Story So What’s a Story?

  9. Story Elements The Building Blocks of Storytelling • Character • Place • Time • Plot

  10. The Cinematic Story • Story: Dramatic Elements and Structure • Shots: Visual Elements and Structure • Sound: Audible Elements and Structure • Editing: Narrative Weaving of Shot And Sound

  11. Story Structure The Layout of Story Elements • Acts • Scenes • Story Events • Beats

  12. The Most Important Story Element! Significance!

  13. Theories of Drama Aristotle’s Poetics

  14. Aristotle’s Poetics • b.384 B.C. in Macedonia, a student of Plato • Was tutor to Alexander the Great • Aristotle’s analysis of Tragedy is the basis of contemporary Western Drama

  15. Aristotle’s Definition of Tragedy “..A tragedy is the imitation of an action, that is serious, … having magnitude, complete in itself in appropriate and pleasurable language…in a dramatic rather than narrative form: with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions…”

  16. Aristotle’s Definition of Tragedy • Realistic • Important • Must be complete never unresolved • Must evoke “feelings” such as pleasure, pity and fear • Preferably incident and action driven • Should cause a “catharsis” or emotional purging in the audience

  17. Aristotle’s Elements of Tragedy • Character • Plot • Theme • Diction • Song • Spectacle • A Dramatic Catharsis or Cleansing!

  18. Aristotle’s Three Unities • Unity of Action • Single Incident • Unity of Space • One Place • Unity of Time • One time

  19. Organizing The Story Organizing Story Elements • Acts • Scenes/Sequences • Story Events and Dramatic Beats

  20. Act Structure All drama must have: • A Beginning • A Middle • An End

  21. Act Structure Contd. Beginning : Act I The Exposition • Introduce character, time place • Sets up relationships • Act I ends with an event that disrupts the stability of the protagonist’s world

  22. Act Structure Contd. The Middle: Act 2 The Struggle • The protagonist is prevented from accomplishing or fulfilling their goals, desires and objectives • Ends with a Climax

  23. Act Structure Contd. The End: Act 3 Resolution • After the climax, the lives of the characters begin to resolve either happily or tragically in a new stable reality

  24. The Scene • A dramatic action or interaction in one place at one time! • Scenic interactions or incidents must themselves have a beginning, middle and end • A Sequence extends the idea of a scene by having the dramatic action in more than one place and perhaps more than one time!

  25. Story Events • Scenes are made up incidents, actions and particularly interactions • Whatever happens to the characters • Significant Story Events are “Beats”

  26. The Pulse of Drama: The Beat • Moments of significance in a scene • Beats are moments of changing consciousness/understanding in the audience and the characters. • Dramatic Beats- Changes in the audience’s understanding of the story • Performance or Acting Beats- Changes in the character’s understanding of the situation • Think of the moment a point is won during a tennis match • Very significant beats mark the end of a Scene or an Act

  27. Sample Screenplay

  28. Theories of Drama Contd. Freytag’s Triangle • 5 Acts Structure • Exposition • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Denouement

  29. Session 2: Visual Storytelling • The Shot

  30. The Frame Aspect Ratio • 4:3/1.33:1 SDV Red • 16:9/1.78:1 HD Green • 2.39:1 Cinema Blue

  31. Shot Names • Long Shot (LS) • Medium Shot (MS) • Close Shot/Up (CS or CU) • 2-shot • Over-the-shoulder (OTS) • Pan • Tilt • Track • Dolly • Zoom • Hi Angle • Lo Angle • Normal

  32. Visual Elements & Structure Frame & Shot

  33. Long Shot (LS)

  34. Extreme Long Shot (ELS) Establishing Shot

  35. Medium or Mid-Shot (MS)

  36. Close Up or Close Shot (CU OR CS)

  37. Extreme Close Up (ECU)

  38. Subject Size • Long Shot & MLS • Mid Shot & MCU • Close Shot & ECU

  39. More Shot Names: 2-SHOT

  40. Over-the-shoulder Shot (OTS)

  41. Audience Effect • The Objective Camera Audience Effect • The Subjective Camera Audience Effect

  42. LS. 2-Shot - Objective POV

  43. MS-OTS Woman Objective POV

  44. MS-OTS Man Objective POV

  45. CU Woman Subject POV

  46. CU Man Subjective POV

  47. MLS 2-shot Objective POV

  48. The Classic Hollywood Scene

  49. A Scene Sample

  50. LS/MS/CU Classic Hollywood Scene Exposition • Long Shot - Beginning • Mid-shot - Middle • Close-up- End

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