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Film analysis of La Jetée

Posted onSeptember 5, 20182,686 Comments

Here is a really good analysis of La Jetée! Chris Marker’s La Jetee Analysis: Mortality and the Illusion of Time  

CategoriesNarrative, Photography, StorytellingTagschris marker, la jetee

Screenplay Format Guide

Posted onOctober 25, 2017September 1, 20191,840 Comments

To help you with the screenplay writing, Download and study this guide:  http://www.storysense.com/SPFormat.pdf  

CategoriesCourse material, Narrative, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Video Production

FADE IN – How to Write a Screenplay

Posted onOctober 23, 20172,340 Comments

t’s easy to feel intimidated by the thought of writing a screenplay. The rules! The formatting! The binding! Don’t let the seemingly endless parade of screenwriting elements scare you away Continue Reading

CategoriesFilmmaking, Storytelling

Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories

Posted onOctober 8, 2017October 9, 20171,780 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories (A bit like Syd Field‘s rules for screenplays) 1. Use the time of a total stranger [your viewer] in such a way that he Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, Storytelling

Business and storytelling – could be useful

Posted onSeptember 26, 2017498 Comments

Storytelling has become a top-of-mind issue in recent times, as technology has democratized the power to share our stories with the world. The fact that it continues to be a Continue Reading

CategoriesNarrative, Storytelling

Babakiueria

Posted onSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 20172,226 Comments

Here is a great example of satire of ethnography. Suggested by Isabella Normark. Pay attention to the word choices, the way the dialogues are written, the point of view, style Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

20 ethnographic and documentary films psychological anthropologists should be teaching.

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 2017554 Comments

20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching

CategoriesDocumentary, Film theory, Filmmaking, Narrative, Storytelling, Visual Ethnography

Transformative storytelling – participatory video practices as a research method

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017732 Comments

“Participatory video implies several changes to the knowledge processes involved in the research and the power dynamics within them. First, as with other participatory approaches, it inverts the relationship between Continue Reading

CategoriesFilm theory, Filmmaking, Storytelling, Video Production, Visual EthnographyTagsparticipatory video

The birth of documentary – Nanook of the North (1922)

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 2017991 Comments

Here is an article that describes some of the concepts and ideas behind the documentary Nanook of the North (1922) by Robert Flaherty who spent 2 years among the Inuit Continue Reading

CategoriesDocumentary, Filmmaking, Narrative, StorytellingTagsethnography

Anatomy of a Scene – NYT

Posted onSeptember 22, 20172,237 Comments

Here is a link to a great page from the New York Times where famous directors deconstruct scenes from their films. Do go through ost of them and understand how Continue Reading

CategoriesEditing, Narrative, Storytelling

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