Week 8 Notes
Story is Action
- Action is any kind of activity, movement, interaction of characters with their surroundings.
- Talking about feelings is not as powerful as illustrating why you feel this way through your actions.
Film is behaviour
- Actions are simply the manifestations of behaviour
- Human emotions are understood by watching the actions and reactions of the characters.
Dynamic Action
- Has the potential to enrich the experience of the audience by building an emotional relationship between the characters and the audience.
- Actions that show the audience the characters’ emotions.
3 ways of expressing emotions (the easy way), flashback, voiceover, through dialogue
