Writing the short film 3th - Part 26. 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. | The Melodrama 165 to a resolution and generally implies a diminished role for characterization. In short if you use plot the likelihood is that it will play a dominant role in the script. There are short films such as The Lady in Waiting see Appendix B where a very modest plot is used the New York blackout is more a plot device than plot proper but it is nevertheless the plot of The Lady in Waiting. More often however when a plot is used it dominates the short script. Because it does so it bears down on the main character and his or her goal with particular intensity. If that plot does not oppose the main character s goal the script as a whole softens under the intensity of a character s pursuit with too little resistance offered to that pursuit. The result is a loss of credibility in the character. This is true for melodrama. It s useful to look for a moment at the situation comedy which is the positive in photographic terms of the melodrama. This means that elements such as plot will be used in the opposite way to how they re used in the melodrama. In Matthew Huffman s film Secret Santa it is Christmas time. The seven-year-old main character simply wants not to be bullied and belittled by a larger classmate. That s his goal. The plot enables him to achieve that goal as follows A bank robbery is carried out by six men wearing Santa Claus outfits. One escapes but is injured in his hurry to get away. He is found by the seven-year-old who believes he has found Santa Claus. He takes him home where the robber hides in the basement. This is the catalytic event. In the second act the boy befriends Santa and convinces him to have words with the bully. Santa tells the bully to be good or no presents this year. The bully complies the main character achieves his goal. Santa is caught climbing out of the basement window. . Here the plot robbery and its aftermath enables the main character to achieve his goal. Tone Generally the tone of the long-form melodrama is realistic. .
