These are the ones I liked:
1. Start strong. (central image should suggest central theme and prompt intrigue)
2. Start late. A story should start as late as possible and occur over the shortest reasonable span of time. (otherswise feels slack)
3. Show, don't tell. Film is a visual medium. SHOW rather than explain. (good graphic here for showing not telling)
8. Conceal the action. Curiosity and intrigue are best provoked by placing the audience a step away from the action. (conversation filmed through crack in the door might be better than ful view... aphysical attack may be more brutal when heard not seen.)
9. Discover the action. "discovery shots" either stay in one place while action goes around in and out of frame, moving in and out of frame. or searches the room, panning (moving discovery shot v. fixed discovery shot)
22. Plot is physical events. Story is emotional events. Plots is what happens in a movie; story is how the characters feel about what happens.
23. Story concerns the specific characters in a film; theme concerns the universal human condition.
25. Make an entrance memorable. Your protagonist's character, style, and behavior must be distinctive from the moment we first lay eyes on him or her. Does he trip on a carpet snag? Did she forget to remove a hair curler?
29.Props reveal character. (prop is any object physicallly handed by an actor, including elements of wardrobe)
33. Every scene must reveal new information. A movie presents a problem, its eventual solution requires that new infomration be made available to both characters and viewers. .. it need not be a bombshell, but should be specific; and if not pure, objective informmation, it can be about how different characters perceive or react to the same information.
34. Every scene must contain conflict. (contribute to the building and intensifying of conflict)
37. Make setting a character. (climate, topography, .ighting... dialect, clothing, personal spaces) setting could be vistas, cityscape... .but also details, a rusty fishing vessel, a fisherman, a loon taking flight, a weather-beaten street sign.
51. "All great work is preparing yourself for the accident waiting to happen." - Sidney Lumet
76. Rhythm and tempo. rhythm is the pattern created by the duration of the individual scenes in a film. a scene typically alast from 15s to 3 m, the shorter the scenes and more cuts from scene to scene, the fast a film's rhythm. rhtyhm should vary of the course of a film; a movie edited at the same rhythm will seem interminable; tempo is the pace within a schene... it is determined by the rate of saction as well as the number of cuts between view of it. Fast tempos can be exciting... or disorienting. Slow tempo allow snuances of character... but impatience.
81. "I would never write about someone who is not at the end of his rope." - Stanley Elkin
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