Brainstorming Project
Your Pitch - Get your teacher excited about your movie.
1. The Visual Narrative - you need to give us a sense of your cinematic storytelling
sensibility. Is there a genre or style that you are working at?
2. Explain what this story has to do with human experience and human behaviour.
3. List the five plot points as they apply to your 3 minutes concept. Where are the scene beats?
Consider:
4. Describe the main characters and their motivation - why do they make sense? This is where you talk about the script and the types of dialogue you are including.
5. Share 5 image ideas and describe the action (blocking)in each key shot. This is where you need to express your aesthetic choices and the overall visual style of the proposed project. Thinking of montages and juxtapositions are your images in a thoughtful order? Is the camera subjective, objective, point of view? Is it moving or still?
6. Finally - Everything else - (Locations, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Costumes, Stunts)
- In very general terms what is your idea for a project?
- Choose your topic. Think about who the story belongs to.
- Brainstorm the reasons that your topic/story is important and interesting.
- Choose a location to film that has something to do with your topic.
- Think about what else might bring your story to life.
- Pictures
- Current News
- Events
- Activities
- Interviews
- Think of a working title.
Your Pitch - Get your teacher excited about your movie.
1. The Visual Narrative - you need to give us a sense of your cinematic storytelling
sensibility. Is there a genre or style that you are working at?
2. Explain what this story has to do with human experience and human behaviour.
3. List the five plot points as they apply to your 3 minutes concept. Where are the scene beats?
Consider:
- Act 1 - Establish the problem. Show the ordinary world of the protagonist, introduce the inciting incident that disrupts it, and make the stakes clear and compelling should the protagonist fail.
- In a feature length film - Act 1 - 25 minutes and in the 10th or 12th minute: the inciting incident threatens the ordinary world. The beginning of act 2 or end of act 1 there is a turn of events: And the protagonist initiates a plan, based primarily on necessity to overcome the crises.
- Act 2 - Complicate the problem. The conflict grows deeper and broader, and the initial response by the protagonist proves inadequate.
- In a feature length film Act 2 - 50 minutes. The beginning act 3 or end of act 2 there is a turn of event :The protagonist initiates Plan B, inspired by an epiphany and based on choice, to achieve true destiny.
- Act 3 - Resolve the problem. Events reach their inevitable climax and resolution.
4. Describe the main characters and their motivation - why do they make sense? This is where you talk about the script and the types of dialogue you are including.
5. Share 5 image ideas and describe the action (blocking)in each key shot. This is where you need to express your aesthetic choices and the overall visual style of the proposed project. Thinking of montages and juxtapositions are your images in a thoughtful order? Is the camera subjective, objective, point of view? Is it moving or still?
6. Finally - Everything else - (Locations, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Costumes, Stunts)
