Lars Hvidbergs digitale hukommelse
Posted in Film og tv, Politik og etik, Story on jan 12th, 2009
Livvagterne – DRs nye flagskib og Peter Thorsboe og Mai Brostrøms efterfølger til “Rejseholdet” og “Ørnen”. Creme de la creme i dansk krimi-fiktion er forventningen, og den bliver indfriet. Med forbehold. Og så stor er konkurrencen altså heller ikke.
Spændingselementerne fungerer upåklageligt. Flot og dragende filmet, afsnit 3 holdt mig fanget i fuld varighed, hvilket ellers [...]
16 gode råd. Dette her var mest interessant, fordi det virker kontraintuitivt:
Start small. Really small. If you are having a hard time getting started, it may be because you’re thinking too big. If you want to exercise, for example, you may be thinking that you have to do these intense workouts 5 days a week. [...]
Jeg parafraserer her efter forordet til Arthur C. Clarkes Collected Stories:
Science-fiction skildrer noget, der muligvis kunne ske, men som vi oftest ikke ønsker ville ske.
Fantasy skildrer noget, der sandsynligvis ikke kunne ske, men som vi nogle gange ønsker ville ske.
Posted in Ego, Film og tv, Story on okt 22nd, 2007
This weekend I attended an amazing two-day seminar with screenwriter, novellist and teacher Linda Aronson at the Danish Film School. In her book Screenwriting Updated, Aronson covers ‘unconventional’ storytelling, which means storytelling that does not strictly follow the Hollywood model of a single protagonist climing the “three act mountain” of rising suspense in a journey [...]
Posted in Story on jun 1st, 2007
An often used bon-mot of writers and teachers of writing is “tell don’t show” “Show don’t tell”. This means that a text becomes boring if it tells us what to think about what is going on, instead of showing us this through action. Simply stating “he loved her very much” is boring tell, and furthermore [...]
Posted in Film og tv, Politik og etik, Story on maj 21st, 2007
Earlier I have discussed the dilemmas of Superman, most interestingly the question of “how does superman know/decide who to save?”
But here’s an earlier and by me overlooked funny post by economist/blogger Tyler Cowen on The Macroeconomics of Superman: Meaning which activities by Superman would be most beneficial for society as a whole? It seems that [...]
Posted in Story on maj 14th, 2007
The great and inventive novel-writing competion NaNoWriMo (The National Novel Writing Month) which takes place in November, now has a screenwriting/playwriting sibling: The Script Frenzy takes place in June and the deal is as usual that you get one month to write your screenplay/play, and use the site and the community to track your results [...]
Posted in Story on maj 3rd, 2007
I got an inviation in my inbox to attend an “International Workshop on Storytelling & Screenwriting” with the Portuguese Screenwriting Cooperative Monomito. The tutor is Patrick Cattrysse. It takes place in July in an old and very scenic monastery in Portugal. Looks good (and expensive), but I don’t know anything about these guys. Anybody knows?
Posted in Film og tv, Story on apr 25th, 2007
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson on five quick principles crucial to Hollywood-storytelling. As part of an analysis of the action picture Mission Impossible III:
1. Goal orientation.
2. Double plotline
3. Discrete part-structure
4. Planting causes for future effects.
5. Deadlines.
Gotta see the movie and check the boxes!
Bordwell’s Narration In The Fiction Film really made an impact when I read [...]
A new book (in Danish) on sound and music in moving pictures: Lydens rolle. By Per Meinertsen, leader of the Sound Engineer education at the Danish Film School. Looks interesting, especially the really practical parts about when to use music and when not to. From his own introduction (at the link):
Hvorfor opleves nogle film dybere [...]
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