On directing film by Mamet David

Author:Mamet, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Motion pictures
Publisher: New York : Viking
Published: 1991-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

RECTING FILM

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put on the desk, and a shot of the man sitting at the desk, looking down at it.

Good. Let's finish it now. How do we reach a conclusion?

The teacher could start considering the book. What is the beat we are trying to dramatize here? Judgment.

Okay, the idea is judgment. Consideration is a different way of saying it. But the teacher considering the book doesn't really have any weight of montage behind it. It's basically expository. A guy picks up evidence and looks at it and makes up his own mind. Not good storytelling, as Aristotle told us. The character shouldn't "just get the idea." Why is the next hcdit judgment, if all the way through, the beats are about the student and the teacher? Don't you want to follow the course of the student and not the teacher? What's your idea?

I saw the beat as taking a stand. He's presented the case, and you cut to him standing there, and he's not going to take no for an answer. And you cut back to the teacher looking up at the kid. What are some other ideas for the next beat? Receipt of the retraction. Yeah, that's an idea. To be denied. That's not really the beat; that's the result. That's

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