Film analysis of La Jetée
Here is a really good analysis of La Jetée! Chris Marker’s La Jetee Analysis: Mortality and the Illusion of Time
Category: Storytelling
Screenplay Format Guide
To help you with the screenplay writing, Download and study this guide: http://www.storysense.com/SPFormat.pdf
FADE IN – How to Write a Screenplay
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
Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for Short Stories
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
Business and storytelling – could be useful
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
Babakiueria
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
20 ethnographic and documentary films psychological anthropologists should be teaching.
20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching
Transformative storytelling – participatory video practices as a research method
“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
The birth of documentary – Nanook of the North (1922)
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
Anatomy of a Scene – NYT
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