 Writing a movie means organizing a set

of elements which will be “put into

scene”

 Cinema, consequently, is not and

wouldn’t even be a kind of writing more
than a show first”
 The apparent similarity between the
movie and the novel, made movie
makers take literary work to the screens
 The adapter is usually facing the
following dilemma:
* It may be faithful to the writing
* It may faithful to the spirit
 A novel is able to make people live
something more than abstractions
 The significations we pretend to give are
the ones that order the shape
 The move from an action novel to a
cinematographic image does not cause
much trouble.

 There isn’t an identity between what is

real “given in an image” and the reality
that constitutes that image.
 A novel gives birth to a world while a film
presents us a world that organizes
according to a determined continuity.
 A novel is a narration that is organized as
a world; a film is a world organized as a
narration.
 There is not a war story without a love
“tale” or a fantasy story without a
dramatic counterpoint
 The genre is always an identifying
element of great importance and a
fundamental criterion regarding the
choice of movies we watch
 A mise – en – scene is a typically
dramatic operation from the set in a
picture.
 when a character moves, the Action Axis
moves along with him/her.
 1. WHAT IS A SCRIPT?
A script is a text in the form of a book,
which is useful as a starting document for
the filming of a movie or for the
recording of a television program
 2. WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
 To the director, to articulate his/ her scene when it has to
do with the making of a plot.
 To the performers, to analyze the personages’ character
that each one has to act out and know the dialogues.
 To the production manager, to make up a plan of
coherent work.
 To the photography director, to imagine the cromatic
climates and to establish the technical means that will be
necessary to elaborate them.
 To the artistic director to choose the environments or
construct the required decoration.
 To the taylor or seamstress and the clothes designer to saw
or adapt the necessary outfits.
 To the sound manager, to define the character of the
musical band and its equiping.
 To the editor for leading the ordering of shots as they are
made and processed.
 To the administrator to organize the flux of expenses.
 3. HOW IS IT WRITTEN DOWN?
 The industry demands consider the
necessity of planning to totally avoid the
later variations or make them minimal.
 The creative necessities require, on the
other side, a great freedom to decide at
the moment the imagined scene is
executed.
 4. WHAT ARE ITS LIMITATIONS?
 the limitations are solved case by case
according to the agreements – or
disagreements – between both parts.
 “It is necessary that the writer do
everything possible to get along with the
director.
 5. CAN ITS TECHNIQUE BE LEARNED?
 one of the biggest difficulties of learning
lay on the extreme variety of genres a
script has to be useful to.