SCRIPTWRITING
Character's Development:
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Character:
1) Want and Need
• Internal conflict
• Want is what the character desires
• Need is what the character needs to evolve
2) Conflicts and Catalysts:
•Antagonists
• Wars
•Love interests
•Relationship breaks
3) Fufillment and Resolution
•Resolve
• Conflict is solved
• Normality has retumed
Example:
Kang Chul - Two Worlds Apart
Wants: to find the killer of his family
Needs: to understand his true purpose
Conflict: Finds out he is just a character
in a book
Fulfilment: Finds love and his purpose
Breaks his main character role
Working on Story:
Story in 1 line:
A biographical drama telling the story of Alan Turing - The imitation game
Turing gets hired by the government
He struggles to make peace with his colleagues
He meets a woman who he marries
He comes out as gay
He completes the machine (enigma) and infiltrates the German army
They win the war
His military history is wiped
Police arrest him for homosexuality
He ends up committing suicide after his release
The Imitation Game uses a nonlinear structure and jumps between the past and the present to foreshadow the future to the the viewers
A synopsis needs to be around 100-200 words which describes the story.
Synopsis:
Set in 1939, a British Mathematician called Alan Turing is hired by MI6 to help crack Nazi Cades (enigma) which is thought to be unbreakable. Turing creates a machine named Christopher, based after a late friend, which successfully breaks the code. However in 1952, Turing is arrested on the suspicion of homosexuality and arrested The film ends with Turing's upsetting suicide in 1954.
How to write a Synopsis:
1) Begin with a Log line: A one to two sentence long description which introduces the character, location, and problem. Recommended to contain irony if possible
2) Start with your Lead character in motion: establish what your character is trying to achieve when the story begins
3) Establish clear cause and effect connections:
Need to know what happens as much as why it happens.
4) Focus on emotions
5) Include major set pieces: big sequences that make your work memorable and unique.
6) Think Cinematically: words with strong visual elements
Analysing Short Films:
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The Black Hole
1) The story is about a man who uses his new, profound discovery for person) gain (greed). Sci-fi. consequences of action
2) The character wants to use the magic black hole for money, but he needs to
3) The plot is that a simple office worker is trying photocopy /print paper but finds that it keeps printing a black circle. After finding this out, he experiments with it trying to challenge its limitations by using it on vending machines and unlocking doors. He then finds the safe and uses the black hole to grab money out of it however he gets too greedy and climbs inside the safe, when the paper falls and traps him inside.
4)Tired looking office worker represents his boredom and lack of satisfaction
5) Harsh, cold looking colours, perhaps to show the dull, unwelcoming office
6) An alien like sound when the black hole is used to show it is abnormal
My Synopsis:
A unsatisfied office worker is completing monotonous tasks until the printer shoots out a black circle. After thinking nothing of it, he finishes his drink and discovers the abnormal power of the hole. He uses it for self gain until he is disciplined for his greedy actions.
Cargo
1) Death, fear, family, survival
2) The character needs safety for himself and
his child
3)After waking up from being unconscious, a man finds himself sitting next to his now zombie - turned partner and escapes the vehicle. He grabs his child and starts planning the nert journey to safety but he realises he is infected too and knows he hasn’t got long he keeps the baby entertained while travelling to safety but before he can make it, he turns into a zombie. He is shot and as the shooters check out the body the find the child and take them in
4) Distressed map, long journey of uncertainty
5)Cold colours to represent the rough, dark apocalypse, dull colours
6) Babycries to show sadness, moaning to show infection