Lecture 2: Story

hello and welcome to cinema 130 film appreciation this is our second week today we're going to get into story in how films are created and crafted and into narrative narrative structure and some elements of character so we have a lot to cover so let me share my screen and we'll get right into it so we're in

week two and you want to make sure and have your book open so we're going to talk about story today and film stories have a pretty common structure so a little business first we're in week two you want to make sure you look for the page numbers in the right hand of the screen that's where they'll be so

hopefully you're following along with your book you'll get the most out of the lecture if you do that and of course hopefully you've completed homework one we have a quiz in two weeks okay moving on evidence strongly suggests that all humans in all cultures come to cast their own identity in some sort of

narrative form we are inherent storytellers and aren't we also inherent story watchers we love movies tv shows blogs we love people telling us a story okay it's become very important in our culture it's through stories and through myths that we learn lessons and we grow as people that's why they're so important in our culture today

so we can say that all stories can be boiled down to hero goes on a journey or trouble comes to town if you think about it most stories there's always exceptions or either a hero going on a goal having a goal and seeking that goal through a journey that journey could be physical as in

traveling but it also could be emotional or mental and then you have trouble comes to town the character is perfectly happy and something bad happens some unfortunate incident that forces them to adjust so this is a really important phase of filmmaking and brainstorming you've got to have an idea to get started and