Scripwriter

Scriptwriter

           There are many roles in making up a film. One of them is the scriptwriter/screenwriter. Its main job is to create or write the story of the film including each dialog and description of the scene.

For become a scriptwriter, first of all, you need to have the primary and secondary school ended because you need the basic to know how to write correctly and properly a story; also have to use only action and dialogue in your script. A screenplay is what can be seen and heard on the movie screen, written in the present tense, as if the action is happening now; have the kind of rhinoceros hide and iron backbone that won’t take “no” for an answer; an understanding to how to make the most of your creative talent; the ability to become exited about any subject on ten minutes of notice- or no notice at all. When you finish your script you have to read it again and again for checking if any mistake or if you consider you could improve something in it.

           Being a screenwriter is a difficult job because you need to afford many problems, such as an immediate change of setting because he should be able to overcome and either redo his script, or adapt it to the new scene. Also if an actor changes its opinion about doing a certain scene, being flexible to change it so all the crew members are satisfied.

Scriptwriters, as all the other work partners, have a lot of responsibilities. One of them is to, if told to do it, finish the script before the dead line. Another one is being in the making of the film so as that in case of being an inconvenient with the script, such as the setting. And one of the most important responsibilities is to take full care of the script, this implies don’t lose it, don’t broke it, don’t ruined it, etc.

Another fact they have to take into account and be carefully is the work with others: it is very important the scriptwriter follows the DIRECTORS decisions, because after all, it is the brain of the whole film. Also, as we said before, it’s important for a scriptwriter to be flexible in his writing and change his script if any problem appears with an actor and accept other opinions and being open because it is always a good characteristic in a scriptwriter for having a good relationship with his partners.

Short Picture Film

Film review, Strangers

Strangers

It’s a short movie about the clashes between different religions. At the beginning of the story there were two men in a subway. One of them was reading an Arabic newspaper and the other one was playing with his necklace which had a Jewish star. In my opinion it is very well characterized with little and simple but effective touches that tell you what religion they are. In this situation the ambient sound is very suspense, but in a low volume which can be seen as a constant remainder of the conflict and tension that is between them. The camera is at a close angle because it showed you their faces and how they looked each other in a challenging way. Lightening was pretty dark but only with the lights of the transport (that were not so shiny) in a way you could distinguish the men and the situation. When the subway stopped they came four men that sat next to them and one made graffiti of the Nazi’s sign in the newspaper the Arabic was reading. In that moment, the background sound and the camera angle was the same as before. In my opinion the director has to change the camera angle because in most parts it was the same, focusing in the men’s faces and expressions and this makes stifling and boring for the public. In the next stand the Jewish’s cellphone started to ring with a ringtone of his religion, so it worse the situation with the Nazis. When the subway stopped the two men tried to escape of this group of “bad boys” and run until they reached the exit. The ambient sound in this moment it’s very active and stressing making you feel the adrenalin the guys are feeling at escaping of this men. Here the camera angle changes into a far angle because you can see the men running and fetching each other. At the end of the movie, the two men leaved aside their differences for save their lives and they achieved it. The other men stayed inside the subway so they felt relaxed and secure. The lights and the angle of the camera stayed the same but the sound effects were quite silent, what represents peace.

French Impressionism work

1. Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du Moulin de la Galette), Musée dÓrsay, 1876.

2. Modernism is modern thought, character, or practice.

Narrative Avant-Garde is a debatable term applied to use in a certain group of filmmakers and films.

Paintings were the most currently and popular bodies of art in French impressionism.

3. Camera work: Camera distance: close-up (as synecdoche, symbol or subjective image), camera angle (high or low), camera movement (independent of subject, for graphic effects, point-of-view).

Mise-en-scene: Lighting (single source, shadows indicating off-screen actions, variety of lighting situations), décor, arrangement and movement of figures in space.

Optical Devices: As transitions, as magical effects, as emphasizing significant details, as pictoral decoration, as conveyors of abstract meanings, as indications of objectivity (mental images, semi-subjective images, optical subjectivity).

4. The passion of Joan of Arc, 1928, director Carl Theodor Dreyer.