Writing the short film 3th - Part 6. Cuốn sách này chủ yếu giúp tham khảo về phương pháp viết kịch bản, phim ảnh, video và các nhà làm phim video - những người đang phải đối mặt với sự cần thiết của việc viết một kịch bản tường thuật ngắn sao cho hay, mạch lạc, nội dung phim được truyền tải hết đến người xem. | Telling a Story in Images 25 INT. VICOMTE DE VALMONT S BEDROOM. DAY VALMONT is an indistinct shape in his vast bed. His valet-de-chambre AZOLAN leads a troupe of male SERVANTS into the room. One raises the blind and opens enough of a curtain to admit some afternoon light another waits with a cup of chocolate steaming on a tray a third carries a damp flannel in a bowl. As VALMONT stirs his face still unseen AZOLAN takes the flannel leans over and begins a perfunctory dry wash. INT. MERTEUIL S DRESSING-ROOM. DAY A steel hook moves to and fro deftly tightening MME DE MERTEUIL s corset. This intercutting of the elaborate dressing rituals of De Merteuil and Valmont continues without dialogue. Essentially as the script makes clear in the last shot of the sequence that follows we are watching as squires gird two seasoned warriors for battle. De Merteuil s stomacher is put in place by her maids and the seamstress sews her into her dress. In the anteroom to Valmont s dressing room a mask covers Valmont s face as a servant blows powder onto his wig. He lowers the mask and we at last see his intelligent malicious features. ANOTHER ANGLE SHOWS THE COMPLETE MAGNIFICENT ENSEMBLE or not quite complete for AZOLAN now reaches his arms round VALMONT s waist to strap on his In the sequence that follows battle of a sort is joined between these two characters in the grand salon of Mme de Merteuil s town house. WHAT THE IMAGES IN THIS SEQUENCE TELL US We learn immediately that Merteuil is beautiful and knows it that both she and Valmont are enormously wealthy and that they are being readied and are quite accustomed to being readied for some sort of formal occasion. The nature of the crosscutting indicates both that there is a parallel between the characters and that they are dressing to meet one another in a contest of some sort. We also realize that Valmont appears somewhat less eager or perhaps just more indolent than Merteuil. Brief references to clothing accessories .
