storytelling

1. Mr. Mamet Describes two ways to make a movie. What are they? Following the actor around it as if the film were a record of what the protagonist did, or a succession of images juxtaposed so that the contrast beetween these images moves the story forward in the mind of the audience.

2. Uninflected is defined as something NOT changed by tone or pitch? What does that mean in film? You want them to have to guess what you're showing them is going to be used for, say in a horro movie you see a diamond fork, the girl kills the killer with said fork.

3. Mamet says we, as storytellers, should “let the cut tell the story.” What does that mean? leave it with no narration let the images you see tell you a story rather than a person. really basic one sentence lines that describe whats going on.

4. What is a shot list most similar to? What we recorded last week.really basic one sentence lines that describe whats going on.

5. Mamet gives this as an example of something you can not film without narration:”Nick, a young fellow in his thirties with a flair for the unusual.” Why would this be impossible to film without narration? Because you can't find the right images for it.

6. Why, according to Mamet, has steadycam hurt film? Because it mkes it easy to follow the protagonist around, so no one has to think about the shot thier doing, they take the lazy bum method.

7. How is a film like a dream? Because thats what it's going to end like, vastly varied, magnificently interesting, and usually uninflected.