Writing the short film 3th - Part 31. 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. | 200 Writing the Short Film Style in the Short Film There is simplicity in a moral tale. All elements character plot and tone put the unfolding of a narrative in the service of the moral. Metaphor exaggeration unnatural events and characters can all be brought to bear on the moral purpose of the story. Even a filmmaker as grounded in realism as Bergman found in The Seventh Seal 1956 for example that he had to move away from realism. The moral tale no man can escape mortality is his subject and so death and a plot specifically about the spread of Bubonic Plague the Black Death are his instruments. The purpose of the narrative a moral tale dictates an imaginative non-naturalistic treatment of the subject. This is the first observation we can make about hyperdrama and the short film. The Main Character and His or Her Goal As in the long film the main character and his or her goal serve the moral rather than inviting identification. The character tends to be a vehicle even in stories where he becomes a superhero Star Wars . The voice of the writer-director his or her affiliation to the moral rather than to the character distances us from character. Nevertheless the main character does have a well-defined goal and it carries him or her forward into the narrative. The Role of Plot Plot is very important in hyperdrama. It provides the scale of the story. Unlike in other genres it is critical to the success of the narrative. In the short film the plot will have far more effect than character. The resulting sketchiness of the characters helps the metaphorical presentation of the narrative. The Structure The first important element to the structure is the presence of a narrator someone who will tell the story. In Lisa Shapiro s Another Story it is the grandmother. In Juan Carlos Martinez-Zaldivar s The Story of a Red Rose it is a narrator-storyteller who is not visible but acts as the aural guide to the story. The Hyperdrama 201 A second observation about structure is that .
