Chapter | Five
Designing Your Movie
WHY YOU NEED THIS CHAPTER
It’s your movie. Put your fingerprint on it and give it your style.
Every film needs to have a main theme, or a central idea, which guides all aspects of it. This gives the movie a mood and helps us understand what it’s about.
Style is the way this main theme in the movie visibly appears on screen.
To get to know what your theme is, ask yourself, “What’s my movie really all about?” Forget the plot or the details and look instead at the overall idea behind it – such as a journey of discovery; or revenge; or facing your past. It may also have a certain “tone” to it, from dark to light, giving the story a feeling of being perhaps menacing, or upbeat, or mysterious, or whatever. ...
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