Filmmaking: Script, Shooting, Editing, and Key Concepts
Filmmaking: From Script to Screen
Film: The art of representing moving images on a screen through photography. The process of making a film consists of three phases:
Scriptwriting
To develop a script, follow these guidelines: select an idea, write the plot, develop the argument, create the treatment, and write the literary script with structured scenes. Finally, develop the technical script. The script usually presents two columns.
Shooting Angle
In filming a movie, the director will decide how to resolve the scenes, taking into account the camera’s movement, the shots, the angles, and sound effects. The images take on a different value and can be classified into:
- Long shot: Descriptive; great shots are usually used for exteriors and display a lot of images.
- General shot: Shows the full-length human figure and the action as a whole.
- Medium shots (narrative):
- Close shot: Shows the human figure down to the knees.
- Medium shot: Shows the human figure nearly to the waist.
- Mid shot: Shows the human figure to his chest.
- Close-ups (dramatic): The face expresses feelings and emotions of the character.
- Foreground: Sample from the head and shoulders of the character.
- Extreme close-up: Shows a very specific part of the character or object.
- Other angles used are:
- High angle (or bird’s-eye view): The camera is situated high above the character, presenting them as diminished.
- Low angle: The camera is placed below the character, presenting them as enhanced.
Editing
Editing is combining, selecting, and organizing the shots to get a structured and coherent story. Ways to tell a story in film are varied and depend on the narrative and rhythmic editing. Narrative editing often tells the story linearly. Rhythmic editing couples all elements of the film to give naturalness to the action and create an appropriate pace and ambiance.
Additional Topics
Loanwords
Loanwords are words from other languages that Castilian has incorporated over the centuries into its lexicon.
Modernism and the Generation of ’98
In the late nineteenth century, there was a renewal in art and thought that caused the return of some Romantic features. Artists no longer reflected reality but created another, more attractive one or exposed their own privacy. The recovery of the subjective, coupled with the desire to achieve formal perfection in the work of art, is the foundation of Modernism. Modernism coexisted in Spain with a group called the Generation of ’98. Both perceived the historical moment with great dissatisfaction. Modernists sought escape from reality through the expression of the fantastic, sumptuous, and sensual. The *noventayochistas* focused on current Spanish topics and had a more sober style. Modernists created a more cosmopolitan and extravagant rhetoric, thanks to the introduction of neologisms and cultism. The lexicon of the *noventayochistas* is simpler, aiming for clarity in descriptions, and sometimes used archaisms to give a greater feeling of authenticity and popular spirit. The literary genre most used by Modernists is lyric poetry. The novel and essay are used by the Generation of ’98.
Curriculum Vitae
A CV includes: Personal data (name, date and place of birth, marital status, current address and phone, DNI), academic data (studies), professional experience (companies where you worked), and other information of interest (hobbies, driver’s license).
Modernism and the Generation of ’98: Narrative, Essay, and Drama
The novel is subjective, and writers believe that a novel with a prior plot plan does not reflect the truth of life. The narrator should not be omniscient because that restricts the freedom of the characters. They try different ways to renew this genre: arbitrary accumulation of events, talks with their own characters, idealizing or burlesque intentions, and identification with one of their fictional characters.
Essay
Essays are short prose texts where someone expresses their opinion with the greatest freedom of style and from a personal standpoint.
Drama
Commercial theater preserves traces of realism and romanticism. Renovating theater created the basis of the most important dramatic works of the twentieth century. In commercial theater, poetic theater, bourgeois comedy, and drama of manners stand out.