Writing the short film 3th - Part 33. 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. | 214 Writing the Short Film and that might be too strong a term for the outcome of their relationship. The young girl makes sure his appetite is satiated she invites him home for her grandmother s authentic cooking. But beyond the cursory hanging out together visiting her grandmother in the hospital and so on there is no apparent arc to the relationship. The Narrative Style The young girl is happy and outgoing the man is introverted and caustic. Beyond that we do not get to know either character very well. Consequently in the character layer of this story there is no clear developmental quality. Each character seems pleased about the relationship but neither can go much further. There is no plot. The Narrative Shape Just as the characters seem suspended between epochs time too seems suspended. In any case without linearity time is not important in the narrative. Tone There is a cool ironic tone to Autumn Moon. Although there are moments of deep feeling his confession to the Japanese woman about his inability to feel his cruel description of the preferable anatomy of her sister more frequently the film takes the point of view of voyeur looking from the outside in on these characters. His constant video filming supports this sense. The stylized sense of the city flat rather than deep also abstracts the sense of Hong Kong. WRITING DEVICES What Kind of Story Benefits from Experimental Narrative Unconventional stories are the first source for experimental narrative. Generally the stories tend to be exploratory stories of identity stories of alienation meditations on a time or place. Vincent Ward s film The Navigator looks at a medieval period Clara Law s Autumn Moon looks at Hong Kong a place where change and tradition meet and in the 1990s conflict. Because experimental narrative sidesteps plot stories of character dominate. Because the genre favors open-ended or nonlinear stories the preference is for tone to make up for the absence of resolution. The Experimental .