From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
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Understand the story
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 1 Narrative Fundamentals
Understand the story
- Making a movie is a complex thing to do. So complex, that it's possible to forget the underlying meaning of what we're doing, which is telling a story. One reason it's easy to lose sight of the story, is that the script goes through so many drafts. When new scripts are published, rarely does the production republish the whole thing. Usually, you just get new pages. There's a sequence of page revisions, identifiable by color, so the script ends up being a multi-colored patchwork quilt. It'll be better to think of the story as a blanket, woven together seamlessly, rather than an episodic series of patches. As the script changes, it's easy for filmmakers to get hung up on the plot, because a series of events that happen, is more easily accessible. The story is more elusive. The cinematographer has to concentrate and realize that the plot will change from draft to draft, but the story shouldn't. The story is the underlying meaning of it all. The story is why we're shooting the thing…
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