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Components of Films

The document discusses the key components of filmmaking, including equipment, materials, and the elements of storytelling and screenwriting. It covers the various types of cameras, audio equipment, and other tools used in film production. It also examines the concepts of story, different story types, elements of a screenplay like sluglines, dialogue, and transitions, as well as the differences between thriller and horror genres.

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Components of Films

The document discusses the key components of filmmaking, including equipment, materials, and the elements of storytelling and screenwriting. It covers the various types of cameras, audio equipment, and other tools used in film production. It also examines the concepts of story, different story types, elements of a screenplay like sluglines, dialogue, and transitions, as well as the differences between thriller and horror genres.

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Components of films

The material and equipment


• Material • Material
• Video Camera • Portable Digital Audio Recorder
• Tripod
• Camera Light
• Three-Point Lighting Kit • Lenses: Wide Angle, Clear "Protective"
Lens, Polarizer, Zoom Lens, Macros,
etc.

• Shotgun Microphone

• Boom Pole
• Materials
• Jib Crane

• DJI Inspire Quadcopter

• Equipment for film making:


• https://www.learnaboutfilm.com/making-a-film/equipment-for-low-budget-filmmaking/
Story, screenplay and script
• Story
• A story is a depiction of a journey. In a story we follow a character or a series
of characters on a journey as they pursue something up against certain
obstacles.

• A story is the telling of an event, either true or fictional, in such a way that the
listener experiences or learns something just by the fact that he heard the
story.

• Every story has a teller and a listener.


Where does stories come from?
• They come from within us.
• Self-told stories to justify or convince or comfort ourselves
• Stories conceive, gestate and born in our minds based on our
experiences, interests, the society and family we live in.
• Everyone is a storyteller.
• Stories happen accidentally, with a reason, with a purpose and to
create a balance in our minds.

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/what-story-and-where-does-it-come-32636/
Different types of stories
• Stories are classified based on ‘why we tell stories’
• Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
• The reason humans have always told stories is because we want
something.
• We want to be alive – grandmother stories – how people overcame beast
attacks
• We want to be loved
• We want to become the best version of ourselves
• We want the world to be in a way we like it to be
Stories are classified based on ‘Values’
1. Adventure Story Type
2. Action Story Type
3. Horror Story Type
4. Thriller Story Type
5. Mystery Story Type
6. Romance/Love Story Type
7. Performance/Sports Story Type
8. Coming of Age Story Type
9. Temptation/Morality Story Type
10. Combinations (Advanced!)
For example: https://thewritepractice.com/types-of-stories/
Thriller vs horror
Screenplay
• A screenplay is a written work for a film, television show, or other
moving media, that expresses the movement, actions and dialogue of
characters.
• Screenplays, or scripts, are the blueprint for the movie. A screenplay
is written in a specific format to distinguish between characters,
action lines, and dialogue.
• Screenplay is a document that consists of script, dialogue, instructions
to the actors and scene directions.
Elements of a screenplay
• Sluglines
• Sluglines (also known as scene headings) tell the reader where the action is
happening. It’s a location, followed by a time.
• Action lines
• Action lines go right beneath the slugline. Proper screenplay format dictates
that they always be written in the present tense and as visually descriptive as
possible.
• Character Cues
• After the action/description, when a character speaks, we start with their
name. place them center and capitalize a character ID and put dialogue
underneath. The character ID need not be the entire character’s name. It
could be a first name, a last name.
• Dialogue
• Extensions
• Extensions go next to a character name in parentheses and tell us how the
dialogue is heard by the audience.

• CONT’D – continued

• V.O. – Voice over


• In the scene, but not heard by the other characters

• O.S. – off screen


• Speaker is off the screen, but heard by the other characters and audience

• INTO DEVICES – dialogue spoken using devices like phone, mike so on.
• Parentheticals
• Parentheticals are directions to the actor – they detail how the line should be
performed.

• AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE
• PAINFULLY
• TEARFULLY
• WHISPERING
• LAUGHING
• Screenplay transitions
• Screenplay transitions indicate how an editor should switch between two
scenes — they're on the far right of the page (right justified) and placed
between two scenes.
• Shots
• Formatted like a caps-locked action line, shots direct our attention to a
specific visual or way of seeing something. This can include various camera
shots, camera angles or camera movements.

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