Breaking
down existing films is a good way to learn how to be a better visual
storyteller for your own projects.
Please
see MyFlik's YouTube
channel for 30+ film school videos with lots of case studies for
each topic.
"Emulation
is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation."
–
J.C.F. von Schiller
40
Plot Points In Ratatouille
Check
out these plot points for this great cooking rat story to see
how to juggle plot, theme and character perfectly.
Story
Movie Reviews
Reviews
from a movie story perspective of new films out and on DVD.
Character
Identification In Finding Nemo
How
does Pixar get you to care about a bunch of little fish?
Character
Identification In Ratatouille
How
does Pixar get you to care about dirty little rats?
The
Sopranos: Season 6
What
was the theme of Season 6? See how the new theme works in each
episode.
Why
Study Superbad And Juno?
These
films have wonderful stories of regular people doing interesting
things and similar films could be made in your town using your
friends as actors. Other films that could be shot in almost
any town include Mean Girls, Lars And the Real Girl and Welcome
To the Dollhouse type stories. The great scripts make up for
the lack of big budgets.
CSI
Basic Story Ingredients
How
to write a CSI episode or spoof. "Grave Danger" is
deconstructed to see how CSI stories work.
"A
genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and
hits it ."
–
Anonymous
Watch
some sample movies below from the online Story Engine on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are samples from the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Follow
along and create a great film or story idea fast! Download the Workbook
PDF fileor
DOC file to
edit. You can also use a notebook or paper and the Online
Workbook or watch it
in 20 Steps.
Sample
Movies
Below
are some sample movies from the 94 minute version above on Storytelling
Goals, Creating Themes and Using Symbols and Metaphors. These short
films are part of the new 20 hour step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to include themes in your films and stories in this free sample
movie from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Learn
how to use Metaphors and Symbols in your films, animations or stories
from the new step-by-step "Writing
A Great Script Fast" DVD Workshop:
Writing A Great Script Fast Makes Screenwriting Easy!
