WHERE'S THE DRAMA?

The short drama, DEFECT, was made as part of the script development process for a character-based feature film (BREAKING BREAD), and was screened as part of the 2010 Soho International Film Festival in NYC in February where it won the award for BEST WORK-IN-PROGRESS. The film presents a succinct, self-contained sequence from the feature script (adhering to the fundamental grammar of short-form drama, with the re-contextualisation of the problem at the end). based upon what was learned doing this short, has made this section of the feature extremely powerful. Working with characters in this way is the kind of thing I have been advocating for years in various film schools - alas, to no avail (so far). It has always seemed to me that one must employ ALL of the tools at hand in the process of finding the characters. This is the great unheeded message of the new technology. Apart from anything else, the present clips demonstrates the power of a well-made trailer, and how even this form of storytelling employs the grammar of dramatic in order to make its point. Anyone out there wanna start a radical, new film school?

Posted by scripttools on January 25, 2010 at 10:32 PM

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