wouldn’t even be a kind of writing more than a show first” The apparent similarity between the movie and the novel, made movie makers take literary work to the screens The adapter is usually facing the following dilemma: * It may be faithful to the writing * It may faithful to the spirit A novel is able to make people live something more than abstractions The significations we pretend to give are the ones that order the shape The move from an action novel to a cinematographic image does not cause much trouble.
There isn’t an identity between what is
real “given in an image” and the reality that constitutes that image. A novel gives birth to a world while a film presents us a world that organizes according to a determined continuity. A novel is a narration that is organized as a world; a film is a world organized as a narration. There is not a war story without a love “tale” or a fantasy story without a dramatic counterpoint The genre is always an identifying element of great importance and a fundamental criterion regarding the choice of movies we watch A mise – en – scene is a typically dramatic operation from the set in a picture. when a character moves, the Action Axis moves along with him/her. 1. WHAT IS A SCRIPT? A script is a text in the form of a book, which is useful as a starting document for the filming of a movie or for the recording of a television program 2. WHAT IS IT USED FOR? To the director, to articulate his/ her scene when it has to do with the making of a plot. To the performers, to analyze the personages’ character that each one has to act out and know the dialogues. To the production manager, to make up a plan of coherent work. To the photography director, to imagine the cromatic climates and to establish the technical means that will be necessary to elaborate them. To the artistic director to choose the environments or construct the required decoration. To the taylor or seamstress and the clothes designer to saw or adapt the necessary outfits. To the sound manager, to define the character of the musical band and its equiping. To the editor for leading the ordering of shots as they are made and processed. To the administrator to organize the flux of expenses. 3. HOW IS IT WRITTEN DOWN? The industry demands consider the necessity of planning to totally avoid the later variations or make them minimal. The creative necessities require, on the other side, a great freedom to decide at the moment the imagined scene is executed. 4. WHAT ARE ITS LIMITATIONS? the limitations are solved case by case according to the agreements – or disagreements – between both parts. “It is necessary that the writer do everything possible to get along with the director. 5. CAN ITS TECHNIQUE BE LEARNED? one of the biggest difficulties of learning lay on the extreme variety of genres a script has to be useful to.