“Movie making is the transformation of living beings into dead images that are then given life by being projected on a screen. Movie going is watching dead images coming out of a projector, ordinarily at the rate of twenty-four frames per second. Since the stars have ‘died’ by giving up their image to celluloid, they can be immortal both in their lifetime and after their death.” — Bernard F. Dick
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Lenses help you to tell your story.
Here are a few introductions to start you thinking about how different lenses are able to shape reality to fit your vision.
Lynda.com
https://www.lynda.com/Video-tutorials/Using-lenses-tell-story/129024/655917-4.html
Below is a link to the NYU Tisch Film Wiki (aka the Mother Lode for Cell Phone Cinema Students regarding all things production). Left column, fifth item down is a link to a storyboard template. You need to be logged in to home.nyu.edu to view our site. There is also a pretty definitive page on Wikipedia. I donate $5 a month to them so linking to them makes me feel like I am seeing a greater return on my investment!
“The plot of a story consists of the events that occur during the course of that story and the way in which they are presented to the reader. The plot is also sometimes referred to as the storyline. Aristotle posited that plots must have a beginning, middle, and end, and that each event in the plot causes the next event to happen. ” — Literary Devices
I don’t have a problem with the simplest explanations possible. This site has that in its favor.
Here are some links to help you think along dfferent lines:
Random Plots.com • Time Travel Reviews Plot Generator
