Writing the short film 3th - Part 15. 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. | 8 THE NEED FOR STORYTELLING We need look no further than the number of television channels to say nothing of the number of hours that television broadcasts news stories sports stories nonfiction stories and fiction stories stories of all lengths to realize the number of stories available to the public every day. Add the number of films newspapers and magazines and oral stories from jokes to anecdotes to elaborate tales from gossip to reportage from free association to analytic interpretation and it is evident we are all telling stories. There are stories on every level from casual to the most meaningful. It s not so much that we hunger for any one kind of story but rather that we need a full range of stories. Human experience functions on a wide band from superficial to deeply meaningful and storytelling reflects that human experience. Why do we need stories We need them to help us make sense of our world both the past and the present so we can make our way to a future. But there are other reasons stories have been important beyond the need to understand and one is the need of the teller to communicate. Whether in pantomime or Elizabethan tragedy storytellers want to communicate with others. The cave painter and the short-film director may have different means but both want to use their medium to bind artist and audience together for that instant or that half-hour of the storytelling experience. For that time storyteller and audience become a community with all the historical implications of the relationship between artist and audience. Another reason for storytelling is the education of the community. Many cultures have used storytelling to educate particularly about the ethics of living in the society. The passing on of tradition and ethics has been a central focus of storytelling from the fairy tale to the fable to the documentary film. Finally storytelling provides a legitimate access route to the world of our dreams and our fears it provides an outlet for both
