Writing the short film 3th - Part 24. 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. | PART III GENRES FORMING THE STORY The term genre often conjures up images of gangsters Western heroes or monsters. In fact the term is applicable to all stories. Genre is nothing more than the form the envelope that encloses the characters and structure of the story. Of course gangster films Westerns and horror films are particular genres. But so are war films biographical films science fiction films and a wide variety of comedies. In this section of the book we are going to look at four meta-genres those that transcend the more specific genres and yet include them. For example every sports film every gangster film every screwball comedy has in it a layer of melodrama. Although we will be using long films to contextualize the different genres we will look only at meta-genres that are suitable to the short film. These meta-genres embrace the particularities of the short film its relation to the short story and to the photograph as well as the link of the short film to nonnarrative forms such as poetry and abstract art. Now we will turn to those meta-genres and show how they will be useful to your writing a short film. 13 THE MELODRAMA Perhaps it s best to start this chapter with a bit of fact and fiction about melodrama. First the fiction. Over the years the term melodrama has increasingly taken on a negative implication. It is associated with soap opera exclusively with romantic women s stories and with a dramatic device best characterized as exaggeration as opposed to realism or a story that is simply more believable . Although all of the above has a hint of truth each is too narrow an approach to melodrama and keeps us away from the usefulness of melodrama as a form. Turning to the truth about melodrama what then do we mean by the term A good starting point is to suggest that melodrama at its most basic concerns itself with stories that are essentially realistic. Within that general description melodrama can be a story about ordinary people in ordinary situations
