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Here's a great little video that hits a couple of my favorite themes, including (1) a classic "Good Morning" scene used repetitively as a frame indicating dreary normalcy and (2) storytelling without words: Both ideas are great of beginners to experiment with, especially because shooting a "Good Morning" scene is so easy and because shooting a "Story without Words" is both challenging in terms of planning, shooting and editing and much much easier than shooting dialog (and so is also an excellent way to learn). This particular example is exceptionally well shot and charmingly acted and is well worth watching, studying and emulating. def: I actually have longer pieces on both of these topics that I still haven't published, but I'd love to hear of your favorite examples of Good Morning scenes and Stories without Words.
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Sep 05 2009 15:36:17 This thread discusses the Content article: Signs
OK, I thought I'd start us off. Both of these ideas have been running around in my head (and a few thousand words written already), but always get cut at the edit before publishing: (1) Good Morning scene You see this scene all the time in movies. Because it is such a common scene and tells such a simple story, the Good Morning scene can roll under opening credits and be as short at 3 shots and 10 seconds or as long as you want, depending on the story you want to tell. It can be trivial or a crucial plot point. Here are some of my favorites: - Back to the Future (1985) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Groundhog Day (1993) - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - Our Time Is Up (2005) - Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Shaun of the Dead (2004) (2) Stories without Words As I mentioned, there's two reason why these are great and, from a production standpoint, if you are the director/shooter/audio all in one, then it's much easier to not have to use any nat sound from the production. On the other hand, telling a Story without Words is definitely a challenge. For both of these reasons, I think this is the ideal exercise for budding filmmakers who have mastered the basics, but are ready to produce their first real short. Lots of examples as far as shorts go, but I'll only list two virtuosic features (please list your favorite shorts and features if you want): - Triplets of Belleville (2003) - WALL-E (2008) |
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Sep 05 2009 18:49:44 Oh man, do I really give off the "I'm a snooty intellectual Art House guy that never watches fun movies" vibe that bad?! Well, (1) I'm so not above "I know you are, but what am I?" and (2) Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a GREAT movie!
And, the intro Good Morning Scene in "Pee-wee's" is really fun. Really. And, within the realm of Good Morning Scenes, it actually would not work if it wasn't for all of the other "normal" morning scenes out there. In a normal one, we see the hero slide into his slippers, but Pee-wee slides into bunny slippers (or something - can't remember). In a normal one, we'd see the hero don a starched shirt, tie in the bedroom, then cut to the kitchen, newspaper, coffee... but Pee-wee cuts from pajamas to fully clothed while sliding down a fire pole from his bedroom to kitchen! (See? Told you I've been thinking rather too deeply about this topic for rather too long!) |
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Sep 10 2009 09:11:30 Hi Eric,
I think it's a good example for "stories without words" the Thousand words directed by Ted Chung, it's on Vimeo And one of my favourite "good morning scene" is from the Rules of Attraction, parallel cut, that way how boy and girl meet looks great on film br zotyp |
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