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Jean-Marie Mazaleyrat: Screenwriter, translator and producer in Perpignan, France posted an entry in Screenwriting lounge titled: "About Aristotle, Campbell, Field ... and their contribution to the progress of storytelling" * film industry events * news in the film industry
Here’s a logline for one of my scripts, called Daytime Noise: “When a hard-partying rockstar is kicked out of his band due to a drug addiction, he starts giving guitar lessons to fund his habit.”. Now, in my opinion, this fulfils the three points of what’s necessary for a logline.
- Notting Hill
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Enter twice. Like Laura,this film begins with images of a mysterious woman. In this case, the opening credits are a montage of superstar Anna Scott’s career. She enters our imagination as the bigger than life movie star. Then, in her second, real entrance into the film she shows up at Will’s travel bookstore to shop for a book. Shopping is somethin...
Enter out of order. Sometimes, when telling a story, it’s very helpful to tell it out of order. In Deadpool the opening sequence shows the title character sitting on a bridge right before an action sequence. The sequence grabs the audience’s attention and at the same time introduces Deadpool’s irreverent character. After this scene, the film moves ...
Enter with character. This is a charming little film I happened to watch while thinking about this article. It opens with an extended phone message over a montage of Marnie’s life. Marnie is a character with a very strong voice and verbal ticks (She opens her messages with “Anyway…”) Her entrance gives us a very strong sense of who she is. Instantl...
Enter uniquely. Another classic noir, Sunset Boulevard begins at the end of the story with a man’s corpse floating in a swimming pool. That’s entering out of order, of course, as discussed above. What’s unique about this entrance though is that the narrator of the film, the main character, is the one floating in the pool. Having a dead man tell you...
While trying to recover from a broken heart, introvert Charles accidentally locks himself out of his apartment and is forced to confront his issues, and... View Details 2020
by Jean-Marie Mazaleyrat. Tell a story is a writer's job. You just need a printer or the Internet to share it. Making movies is a collective job. Unless you are a one-man-band cinematographer + actor, you share the creative process with a director, a technical... more.
Jean-Marie Mazaleyrat: Screenwriter, translator and producer in Perpignan, France posted an entry in Anything Goes lounge titled: "Thanks RB!" * premier acting network * talent agency music industry
Jan 1, 1980 · John Fox; Jean Mazaleyrat, Éléments de métrique française, French Studies, Volume XXXIII, Issue suppl, 1 January 1980, Pages 958–959, https://doi.org/10.10
