Category: FILM IN PHASE SPACE
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Bomb Under a Table
Scene: A Dimly Lit Café Beat 1: Introduce the Setting The scene is set in a dimly lit café, with soft jazz music playing in the background. The camera pans across the room, capturing the casual conversations and the clinking of coffee cups. The patrons seem oblivious to the impending danger lurking beneath one of…
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Kishōtenketsu
Kishōtenketsu is a unique story structure commonly found in East Asian narratives, particularly in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature. It offers an alternative approach to storytelling that subverts the traditional Western concepts of conflict-driven plotlines and three-act structures. The term “Kishōtenketsu” consists of four Chinese characters, each representing a different narrative element: Kishōtenketsu showcases…
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Flat Space
In film, the concept of flat space is used to describe a style of visual storytelling that emphasizes the two-dimensional nature of the screen surface, rather than attempting to create the illusion of three-dimensional space. This style is often associated with avant-garde and experimental cinema, as well as with certain genres such as animation and…
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Deep Space
Deep space is a technique used in filmmaking to create a sense of depth and distance in a scene, typically by manipulating perspective and creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional screen. There are a number of different elements that contribute to the creation of deep space, including perspective, size difference, movement, camera…
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Deep, Flat, Limited, Ambiguous Space
The concept of space is an essential element in filmmaking, as it provides a framework for how the story is told visually. Film theorists and practitioners have long studied the various ways in which space can be used to convey meaning and create atmosphere. Bruce Block, in his book “The Visual Story,” outlines four types…
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Werner Herzog Movie: The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist: A Werner Herzog Film Logline: In 1977, a German brewery worker with a love for beer and a thirst for adventure takes a trip to San Francisco. There’s just one problem: he ends up in Bangor, Maine. This heartwarming comedy by Werner Herzog explores the world’s last lost tourist, Erwin Kreuz, and…
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Gladiator
[FADE IN] INT. BATHHOUSE – DAY Steam billows around the brawny form of MAXIMUS (50s), his body scarred from countless battles. He rubs himself down with a strigil, a hint of weariness in his eyes. A door creaks open and CRISPUS (30s), a clean-cut man in a linen toga that screams “startup money,” enters. CRISPUS Maximus. Legend. Just, wow. You, uh, look amazing for a guy who… you…
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Arthur C Clarke’s Monolith
In the grand tapestry of existence, the monolith stands out, not as a majestic pillar of cosmic design, but as a curious anomaly, a self-inflicted bubble of solipsism. Imagine, if you will, a region of spacetime carved out by the monolith’s very being. Its mass, charge, and angular momentum, writ large in some cosmic equation,…
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Amelie
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The Wizard of Oz vs the Trial
The Wizard of Oz and Kafka’a The Trial are distant cousins: find ten plot or character or function similarities “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum and “The Trial” by Franz Kafka are indeed distinct works with different tones and themes. However, we can still identify some plot, character, and functional similarities between the…