Writing the short film 3th - Part 27. 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. | 172 Writing the Short Film extreme that style is represented in the recent Dogma 95 films particularly Von Trier s Breaking the Waves and Vinterberg s The Celebration. But none of the work has given up those original documentary intentions to share with the audience a real experience and to educate more than to entertain. The docudrama represents the consciousness of style fused with dramatic principles to share a story the writer-directors feel is important. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS The Centrality of Actuality At the heart of the docudrama is the sense of actuality. Whether the focus is on real people a real place or a historical event the docudrama trades on this sense it happened to real people in a real place and time. The deployment of style as well as of the dramatic components will likely focus on that veracity. Time will also be allotted to supporting the sense of actuality details habits and customs will all be specific to the topic. This does not however necessarily mean that the focus will be on the famous or highborn although both have provided ample material for the docudrama. It means that at whatever level rich or poor famous or obscure the focus of the narrative will be as much taken up with the anthropology of the place and time as it will with the dramatic properties of the event or person. The Dominance of Place and Time Over Character In the melodrama the character and his or her goal seem to transcend time and place. The reason is that at its heart melodrama is about psychology behavior and interior issues in a sense the dramatic arc of the main character is an inner journey. Consequently the externalities of time and place are subsidiary to the internal dynamics of character. Mike Van Diem s Character discussed in the previous chapter is an excellent benchmark. The main character s family life his ambition and his selfabnegation far transcend the sense of Rotterdam in the 1920s. We are aware of Rotterdam its poverty and its labor unrest but .
