Connor Winfield TV production

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Camerawork - How the camera is used in television and film to serve story, character and action - The art of cinematography - The primary grammar of visual story Basic elements of camerawork - The shot - affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through composition and speed - Movement - affects our emotional and psychological relationship with characters and setting through changes in visual movement Why use shots? - The basic building blocks of visual grammar - the visual equivalent of sentence structure - If shots are words, mise en scene is meaning ad editing is narrative Basic shots - Wide shot - establishes location, setting and context - Medium shot - character(s) dominant in frame - Close up - face or specific object dominates frame - Extreme close up - selected part of character or object fills the frame. ( Not often used in documentaries, but when it is, used to show emotion) Angle and speed - High angle shot - Dimin

- Plot is what happens - Story is significance of what happens - Don't have 'and then' between plot points. Use 'but', 'therefore' etc. Include big 'buts' - Characters should have twists eg undercover agent who refers gang over officers, bald man with a comb in his pocket - Ending is the target of your story - Character should be built up enough so that the audience can try and predict their actions - Good openings throw up difficult choices and powerful conflicts - 'Psycho' starts as a heist film, but dramatically twists the film into a horror film. Changes genre - 'Tin Men' middle changes the significance of the story - Endings are the biggest 'but' in the film - Audiences love moments, and tend not to notice character and         plot

Film moment I had to think of a moment in a film that was very memorable, like when you watch it at the cinema and you and your friends are talking about it afterwards. this was my choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwvAMPTWu6A

- Where you position the camera in a scene is where you place the audience in the scene - Line between characters, camera on arc around them and the shot will work from any position on the arc - Characters stay on screen left or screen right in any shot - Eye line is important - Left character looks right, Right character looks left - Each position change of characters creates a new arc - Can break the rule for certain reasons, e.g. disorientation purposes, such as 'The Shining' red toilet scene

We had our second lecture on screen writing with Steve Coombes, and he focused on Dialogue and Character. He used scenes from 'When Harry met Sally' and 'Full Metal Jacket' , as these films included scenes that were very prominent.  Dialogue - Pulp fiction 'Gold watch scene' - very detailed, keeps the audience   interested - if the dialogue doesn't move the story, change/ cut it - to on the nose dialogue is bad - to formal dialogue is bad - Don't have every character sounding the same. Talk as their character would - Don't get to artistic with dialogue - Shape dialogue to character's personality - Read dialogue out loud, then think of who would play them, the read out loud again - Do't be to grammatical - Don't make it to real - Don't do long speeches unless you can't avoid them - Unless for a good reason, don't give a character more than three        lines of dialogue - Be aware of accents - little touch - So

William Goldman - 'Adventures in the screen trade' 1 hour script - about 12,000 words 30 minute script - about 6,000 words Use more verbs rather than adjectives Logline - a one, or sometimes two, sentence description that reduces the script to its essential dramatic narrative, and crucially contains all the elements necessary for the telling of a good story. Treatment - summary of the story (10 pages) Bible - future story lines (summary of series) 'The Wire'  series 'Fleabag' series 'It's always sunny in Philadelphia' series '6 feet under' series A screenplay doesn't tell story at audience pace, it tells the story at your pace 5 golden rules of screenwriting 1. A screenwriter is like the CIA, you tell the President what they need to know. Your audience is your President 2. Don't tell, show 3. A screenplay is like a joke, setup, distraction and punchline 4. Know your ending 5.Count your moments Screenplay cann