DOCUMENTARY: Lecture [Scripting and Storytelling W/HCurston (17/03)]

Title:

• Sells/teases the story
• Can help focus the meaning
• Think about brand

Treatment:

• Character
• Locations
• Style/Format
• Narrative Structure
• Presenter/Reporter?

• Start w/ comm & interweave w/ summ of sync
• Explore pic options
• Write to picture - should work together

Comm / V/o -- Commentary

Seq -- Sequence

Act -- Actuality

C/a -- Cut Away

Sync -- Interview Clips

SFX -- Sound effects

Commentary: 

• Guides/Explains story!!
• Progresses story
• Introduces characters
• Corner turner (Subject to subject, location to location)
• Info / Expertise

Reflect narrative w/ lighting 

Watched: 'Cops With Cameras' (2007)

Comm: intro who/what/where (Contextualises)

Singles and tight shops - helps to structure a narrative

Clips of kitting up w/ voice over adds tension

Upsound - atmos used as key sound

Narrative style:

-Filmmaker as narrative?

-Make it appropriate

BE AWARE OF COPYRIGHT ISSUES!!

Watched: Girl Gangs (2017) BBC 3
Led by investigator
Anonymity
Characters introduced through quote
Uses reporter v/o as page-turner