"Beating" is as Hollywood term for beating out and idea, or creating an idea, a beat is when something happens during the story plot. Normally a five min short film like what we will be doing will have on average 8-12 major "beats" within the story.
Examples of traditional "beats" within modern films:
Beat One... Introduce the film that the world will be in
Beat Two... Introduce the character
Beat Three... Introduce the problem
Beat Four... How the character choses to solve the problem
Beat Five... Set back
Beat Six... The character is nearly defeated
Beat Seven... Rejection of the easy solution
Beat Eight... Comes up with a new solution
Beat Nine... Resolution
Examples of beats within a Short Film.
http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/02/18/rest/
Beat One... Open field, a single grave
Beat Two... Introduction of zombie coming out of grave
Beat Three... Realising that he is dead and the war has been over for almost 90 years
Beat Four... Begins top walk to find something
Beat Five... Needs a way across the river
Beat Six... Gets on a boat and travels to the big city and begins to walk across America to find his wife.
Beat Seven... Begins to become exhausted from walking half way across the world
Beat Eight... Finds wife's grave
Beat Nine... Diggs her up in order to be next to her.
Beats of our film idea:
( a girl makes the best of a bad situation and uses her new found abilities to keep her partner safe)
Beat One... Introduction of world the film will be set in... News stories and stuff linking to the zombie outbreak.
Beat Two... Introduction of Charlie, are lead character and protagonist running away from a zombie horde.
Beat Three... Introduction of problem... Zombie outbreak
Beat Four... Attempts to run away with the rest of the group
Beat Five.... Gets bitten when attempting to save the rest of the group
Beat Six... Turns
Beat Seven... Rejects becoming a zombie
Beat Eight... Uses her new found zombie skills and stuff to keep the group safe
Beat Nine... Resolution, happy ending.
No comments:
Post a Comment