Telling a Cinematic Party-Like Story. I was looking at the cool glass award statue that was delivered yesterday.
It was for winning “Best Story” at a recent film festival. Since I’m always interested in how the award winners achieved recognition, I thought I’d share a few thoughts about creating a good story for film. Eisenstein was the first to play with film story. He stated that film story should be told through cuts or the juxtaposition of uninflected images. If you listen to how a guy tells a story at your next party, you’ll hear him share it cinematically. Maybe he told it like this… “The sun was really bright. This story was put together by taking different shots or things noticed, and stringing them together so the juxtaposition of the elements told a story.
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Download Paul's lecture as a .pdf. Paul Laverty: First of all, thanks very much for turning up. As Jeremy [Brock, curator of the Screenwriter Lecture series] said, it’s such a beautiful evening. I couldn’t give a lecture to save myself, so my friend Jamie Michie – a wonderful actor I had the great privilege to meet on Route Irish – is going to help us out. This is a little piece. I’m always fascinated by what public memory is, and what anniversaries are, and who’s remembered and who’s not. Jamie Michie reads an extract of Paul Laverty’s work, after a musical piece The Green Hills of Tyrol. “F**kin’ break your heart that, eh?
“[Laughs] Kitchen equipment, I mean it’s f**kin’ hilarious man. “And that’s heroic, huh?