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- When Ye Wei returned to the wooden steps of the back garden with pen and paper in hand, he immediately started working, thinking about the script and recording all his thoughts.
Now we have two protagonists, a little girl and her dog. Let¡¯s call the little girl Annie and the dog Toto.
What theme? About courage, friendship, protecting each other
He looked at Duoduo and Toto, who were running around having fun, as if they were looking at the muse. The Imagination train was running according to the previously designed track, and the scenery along the way was constantly emerging, and the pencil was also moving on the white paper. After writing it for a while, I completed the outline of the story:
The little girl Annie and the dog Toto have grown up together and have a deep relationship. They like to dance together the most. The cute dance of one person and one dog is famous in the local community, and they are everyone's happy angels.
Finally, the community theater invited them to perform on stage for everyone. However, a sudden traffic accident caused Annie to lose her right leg and she had to use a wheelchair and crutches. She was very depressed. The lively angel in the past was completely lifeless. Everyone had no choice but to look sad.
At this time, Toto encouraged Annie with positive actions. He could still dance even without a wing, and successfully aroused Annie's strong will.
So that day, on the stage of the community theater, Annie and Toto danced again. The audience burst into applause and were very moved.
"OK, not bad." Ye Wei smiled and nodded. There were several touching and tear-jerking moments in this, especially when Toto encouraged Annie and Annie to get back on their feet.
He wrote another sentence on the edge of the manuscript paper: Without wings, can she and her puppy still fly?
This is just an outline, just a framework. There is still a long way to go before it can be written into a good story.
Ye Wei first thought of rhythm and structure. Because he has three roles: director, editor and soundtrack, he can consider many things at the stage of script creation, whether to tell the story sequentially, or to have flashbacks and Flashback?
He thought of an opening scene: in the courtyard, Annie was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the distant sky with sad eyes.
Under soft and sad music, a set of montages are used to show the previous story without lines, especially to exaggerate the relationship between Annie and Toto, like her happily picking up a paparazzi and puppy from a cardboard box. Jumping for joy, she also jumped up, and the dog watched her being hit by a car With a dog barking, the music ended and returned to the present.
¡°It¡¯s great to shoot like this. It¡¯s the easiest way to get high praise when you make short films using this narrative trick, and it¡¯s also easy to stand out in various short film festivals.
This is because the short film is short and it is difficult to tell a novel and profound story in a few minutes; playing with film language and exaggerating an emotion makes it easier to impress others.
It¡¯s just that! Not suitable for my situation this time!
Ye Wei once again made it clear in his mind that the skill he wanted to show off was not to play with narrative tricks, but another skill, which was to shoot a 180-page feature film script. For a feature film, the rhythm is more Two technical tricks are too important.
"Tell it in sequence." He wrote it down on paper. His goal was to construct a complete three-act structure story in 10 minutes to show his control over the rhythm of the story. In the words of martial arts novels, this is called : The heavy sword has no edge, and the great skill has no workmanship.
After determining the rhythm and structure, he began to do self-questions and answers on paper to gain a deeper understanding of the characters and explore the story.
Q1: Could you please describe Anne more?
A1: A lively and happy little girl, kind, sensible, and likes to dance. She is happy and can infect everyone around her. Like an angel, she has almost all the goodness. She is the treasure of her parents and the community.
Q2: What is this character¡¯s initial desire? What does she want?
A2: In the first act, she loved dancing and wanted to perform for everyone on the stage, but she also valued everyone¡¯s applause and praise, her family¡¯s pride in her, and the sense of accomplishment that comes with becoming a star.
Q3: So in the beginning, she valued the outside more than the inside?
A3: Yes, this is her attitude towards dancing. She regards dancing as something that can gain applause rather than something that can share happiness.
Q4: After the turning point occurs, what will she pursue?
A4: She wants to pursue a new attitude towards life. The most important thing is not how she dances, but the happiness and spiritual things that dancing brings to herself and others.
Q5: So what does she need in the second act to succeed in the third act?
A5: Courage, optimism, positivity, and never give up.
Q6: Who gave her this revelation and who is her mentor?
A6: Puppy Toto?It made her understand that the most moving thing about dance is the vitality, vitality and joy it shows, not the dancing posture. The same is true in life.
Q7: Are there any particularly important visual props? As a prop for the second turning point?
A7: One of Annie¡¯s little dancing shoes.
Q8: Was Annie¡¯s car accident caused by herself? Is this a result of the way she sees the world?
A8: It should be like this. Pain is caused by oneself, and salvation is completed by oneself. She had no fault to blame, but was punished in a revelatory way by God.
Q9: What happened to her in the end?
A9: She has changed and realized her heart. Even without wings, she and her puppy can still fly!
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After writing more than thirty Q's and A's, Ye Wei already felt very strongly about the story, as if he could get in touch with the characters and see what was happening. He knew it was time to write a draft and put all the details into it. He picked up the paper and shouted: "Duoduo, brother goes back to the room to write something first."
"Okay." Duoduo responded and continued playing with Toto.
Ye Wei talked to her mother again, then returned to the room on the second floor, sat at the computer desk, and opened Word.
Word is not a professional script writing software, but this computer does not have professional software such as Movie-Magic-Screenwriter. He had to use Word first and then format it professionally when printing.
Regardless of the medium, the first step in formally creating a text story manuscript is to write a draft. Write with your heart and let the ideas brewing in your subconscious come out naturally. You don¡¯t need to think too much, just write; after writing the draft, enter the second step. Step by step, use your brain to modify it. There is no fixed number of how to modify it and how long it will take to be satisfied.
Ye Wei looked at the time, it was 11:05, there was about an hour before lunch, so within this hour, he should write the draft of the script.
He put his hands on the keyboard, slowly closed his eyes, and relived those thoughts and feelings. Something gradually changed in his mind. The left brain no longer dominated the information, and the right brain took over!
The "crackling" sound of typing on the keyboard suddenly sounded. He entered ""Dance of Angels", author Ye Wei", and then began to write:
¡ºFade in
1Exterior scene, back garden of the house, day
In the back garden of a house in a middle-class community, a cute little girl who looked seven to ten years old was dancing with a small fluffy dog. She was named Annie, and the dog was named Toto. The puppy's dance was a little awkward. When he was doing a back-to-back move, he missed and bumped into the little girl, making her laugh.
Annie: Hahaha, Toto, you idiot, have you forgotten what I taught you before? ¡»
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¡º35 interior, theater, night
(The music continues to play) The theater, which can accommodate thousands of spectators, is packed with seats. On the stage, Annie and Toto wearing prosthetic limbs are dancing passionately. The audience bursts into applause, and Annie's parents and others in the front row smile brightly. ¡»
An hour later, the document on the computer screen already had pages of text. As his mother's voice came from downstairs: "Wei, come down for dinner." Ye Wei took a long breath, and his hot hands slowly The ground stopped, still shaking with the imagination of the subconscious.
He continued typing a few more times and entered the three lines of text "Fade out, credits, end", and the draft was done!
"Wow, you're really good, aren't you?" Ye Wei smiled with satisfaction, grabbed the mouse and dragged the document, writing down a total of 35 scenes, all of which were his brainchild.
But they still need to withstand the test of the left brain. Just because you write it doesn¡¯t mean you have to keep it, and having long hair and a big beard doesn¡¯t mean you are an artist.
??There are definitely many scenes that need to be deleted, repetitive, counterproductive, uselessall should be deleted without mercy, and some new scenes must be added if necessary. Anyway, each scene must have its own power and combine to form a greater power, otherwise it will be useless.
As an author, you must be well aware of this. Making up stories and telling stories is such a magic: controlling the emotions of the people listening to the stories.
To control, you need to know how each scene, line, and action will make people feel, and then give them to them, just like making a precise space rocket. All the details determine whether the story is good or bad, whether it is a pile of garbage or a beautiful thing that makes people linger.
¡°Wei, come down and eat!! Do you hear me!?¡±
"Here it comes!"
Ye Wei quickly saved the file, turned off the screen, turned around and left. He only knew that his mother was now in a very irritable mood.
Soon after a simple lunch, Ye Wei shut himself into the room again and continued to revise,In addition to streamlining the scenes, we also need to enhance the tension of the story and polish all the lines there is too much to do.
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Three hours have passed so quickly? Ye Wei pressed the alarm clock and was a little reluctant to leave the chair, but if he didn't leave, he would be late again, which would make him angry.
Rome was not built in a day, and the efficiency is getting lower and lower. Even if we continue to change it, nothing good will be achieved. Let's stop here first, go out and breathe the fresh air and the girl's fragrance.
Ye Wei saved the document again and closed it
Soon, the wooden stairs made a clanging sound.
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