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Wildcat Film School Story Telling Vocabulary
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Wildcat Film School. Story Telling Vocabulary. What’s your favorite movie?. Why is it your favorite movie?. The Actors? Characters? Story? Overall feel of the film? Gives you a certain emotion when you watch? Music, effects, etc ?. What are some classic films?. Jaws Titanic - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Wildcat Film SchoolStory Telling Vocabulary
What’s your favorite movie?
Why is it your favorite movie?
The Actors?
Characters?
Story?
Overall feel of the film?
Gives you a certain emotion when you watch?
Music, effects, etc?
What are some classic films?
Jaws
Titanic
Wizard of Oz
King Kong (any version)
Psycho
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Mood & Tone
Mood: a feeling the movie evokes from the audience; atmosphere
Tone: the exchange of the characters within the movie; how does everything relate to every other thing in the movie?
Plot Diagram
Plot Diagram
Story Types - Taglines
Taglines
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Alien
Armageddon
The Big Lebowski
Bourne Identity
The Campaign
Christmas Vacation
Clerks
Dark Knight
Dumb and Dumber
Erin Brokovich
Fargo
Finding Nemo
Gravity
Inception
Jaws
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Terminator
Tommy Boy
The Truman Show
Turbo
Tagline Answers
Yule crack up. - Christmas Vacation
There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one. - Finding Nemo
An adventure 65 million years in the making. - Jurassic Park
Reality is a thing of the past. - The Matrix
The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end. - The Terminator
Tagline Answers
If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards. - Tommy Boy
On the air. Unaware. - The Truman Show
Earth. It was fun while it lasted. - Armageddon
Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail. - The Big Lebowski
Just because they serve you doesn't mean they like you. - Clerks
Tagline Answers
For Harry and Lloyd, every day is a no-brainer. - Dumb and Dumber
She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. - Erin Brokovich
A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere. - Fargo
The mission is a man. - Saving Private Ryan
The list is life. - Schindler’s List
Tagline Answers
You’ll never go in the water again. - Jaws
In space no one can hear you scream. - Alien
Why so serious? - Dark Knight
Your mind is the scene of the crime. - Inception
Don’t let go. - Gravity
Tagline Answers
He’s fast. They’re furious. - Turbo
President by day, hunter by night. - Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
He was the perfect weapon until he became the target. - Bourne Identity
May the best loser win. - The Campaign
One sentence movies
1. He/she beat the odds and held his/her own.
Rocky
Hunger Games
One sentence movies
2. Their love was doomed from the beginning, but they fought for it anyway.
Titanic
Romeo and Juliet
One sentence movies
3. He/she found hope in the strangest place and fought for freedom.
Shawshank Redemption
Ben Hur
One sentence movies
4. They found love in someone they never expected.
Beauty and the Beast
Ten Things I Hate About You
One sentence movies
5. The government locked him/her away, but he/she broke free and saved the world (or just about anything).
The Rock
The Jackal
One sentence movies
6. Something is attacking the world and he/she must stop it/them and save everyone/thing.
War of the Worlds
Independence Day
Armageddon
Men in Black
One sentence movies
7. He/she was unaware of just how important he/she was and when he/she found out, he/she broke free.
The Matrix
The Truman Show
One sentence movies
8. He/she made a friend in an unusual place and together they could do so much more than they ever could do alone.
Rainman
ET
One sentence movies
9. A quiet guy/gal yearns to be so much more.
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Fight Club
One sentence movies
10. They met, fell in like, had a misunderstanding and then fell in love.
Crazy Stupid Love
Warm Bodies
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Sweet Home Alabama
One sentence movies
11. There’s an upcoming competition and this unlikely pair/group has to work together to win.
Pitch Perfect
Silver Linings Playbook
One sentence movies
12. They’re both fighting to win the love of the girl/guy and in the end only one can win.
The Notebook
This Means War
Character
Characterization: act of describing a character or qualities about them (in a script you will need to write it out and then in the movie show the audience who a character is).
Direct Characterization: the process by which you will reveal the personality of a character (direct is done in the script)
Indirect Characterization: the process by which the personality of a character is revealed through speech, actions, appearance, etc. (how we understand a character in a movie by seeing them – generally the first time).
Character
Dialogue
Diction: style of speaking dependent on choice of words (decide how each character specifically talks – we all talk differently through our word choice).
Pacing: the relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented.
