lesson 2

• Basic principles
• Higher Education (non-degree)

Think of yourself as a filmmaker. 

Start thinking like a filmmaker. Make it a habit. 

Examine the world around you with a filmmaker's mind. 

Around every corner 

there is a story.

Find them...

          Let's watch your films...

What does a film director do?

"What a film director really directs is his audience's attention," Alexander Mackendrick

Selective Attention

A selective attention example is having a conversation with someone in a crowded, public space. One chooses to focus on what the friend is saying rather than every single noise present in the background. This ability is a phenomenon known as the cocktail party effect.

The brain has evolved specialised neural mechanisms to rapidly detect faces .

Not only do we imagine faces, we analyse them and give them emotional attributes.

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Direct the audience's attention

Three act structure - can anybody tell me what it is?

Three act structure is beginning, middle & end. 

Act 1. Setup

Act 2. Confrontation 

Act 3. Resolution

Inciting Incident

The inciting incident is an event that sets the hero on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.

You must start a moment in the first act and it must gain momentum and in the final act it crashes against an immovable wall and that is it.

Confrontation

 is a clash between two opposing forces that creates the narrative thread for a story.

Conflict occurs when the main character struggles with either an external conflict or an internal conflict

Gordie's internal conflict is learning to live with the loss of his beloved older brother. 

The resolution

...is the end of the story. 

Important!!!

Aristotle in his Poetics, the best endings are both "surprising, yet inevitable".

Now it's your turn...

Examine your short film idea. 

Has it a beginning, middle and end? 

Has it an inciting incident, confrontation (exterior & interior) and resolution?