Writing the short film 3th - Part 11. 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. | 60 Writing the Short Film way and also tell the story. There are exceptions to this rule of course many of them comedies or experimental films or videos. All the same if you are interested in making narrative films it s useful to learn the ground rules before you take to the air. ON CHARACTER AS HABITUAL BEHAVIOR As we have noted Aristotle referred to character as habitual action. You are what you ordinarily do that is until you do something you don t ordinarily do which is what makes for drama. To be believable the character s capacity for out-of-the-ordinary behavior needs to have been glimpsed by the audience even if not recognized for what it is at some point in the story before it appears full blown. If your aim is to create cartoon characters in a live-action world believability of behavior doesn t matter as much. For example in the outline above Icarus ordinarily obeys his father without question if sullenly until the moment in the flight when he realizes that Daedalus is no longer in command that he can do as he chooses. His out-of-the-ordinary behavior in disregarding Daedalus s warnings would make sense to us as an audience because we have witnessed for ourselves earlier signs of rebelliousness. In Cocteau s sense the logic of it has been proven to us. It is the movement of spirit or psyche as Aristotle calls dramatic action that produces a character s behavior. In any of the dramatic forms the inner life of a character has to be expressed in what that character does as well as in the way he or she does it. In a good screenplay both dialogue and physical action flow from a character s dramatic action or want or need . ANOTHER ADAPTATION WITH DAEDALUS AS HERO Now we shall work from the same source material as before the myth but in a very different way using Daedalus as our main character. We ll answer the seven questions briefly as a step toward writing a bare-bones synopsis of the projected script which is for a live-action realistic film of 15 to 18 .
