How do movies tell us a story?!
Question: Who conducts the storytelling and with what techniques?
Answers: Who conducts the storytelling and with what techniques?
Movies tell a story through moving pictures (hence: motion pictures), or more appropriately "shots"
All movies are made up of shots that are mixed together in editing to make the final product. Shots reveal the story to the audience and great filmmakers know how to manipulate shots to convey a certain meaning to the audience.
Filmmakers rely primarily on shot's to tell their stories, and therefore create story boards which are drawings of every shot they plan on taking, before they take it. Also shot-list's(a list of shots to be taken) serve a similar purpose. However not ALL filmmakers use shot lists and storyboards.
Voice-over narration and montages are great ways to progress the story as well.
By controlling what the audience see's and hear's the filmmaker controls the movement of the story. No Country for Old men is a great contemporary example of this.
Hope this helps!
sometimes narrators--a voice in the background.
sometimes it could be like the movie The Princess Bride where the grandpa is reading a story to his sick grandson and the movie shows the story being played out.. a movie would be The Notebook where im pretty sure hes reading his wife her diary from when she teenager and they first met...because she was losing her memory. Some movies dont have a narrator or no "story" is being told, such as Enchanted.
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