Forming the Video Story

The planning stage in filmmaking.

• pre-production

• production

• pre-producing

• problem definition

It takes moving pictures and stores them in flash memory cards or optical discs.

• digital still camera

• digital camera

• digital video camera

• dslr

It is your basis for every decision you will make as a filmmaker.

• fiction story

• script

• storyboard

• structure

The following are the different point-of-view of story except one.

• objective

• second person

• omniscient

• first person

This is where the narrator knows everything, from what the characters are thinking to their every action.

• objective

• third person

• second person

• omniscient

This is where you just state what is happening without disclosing anything about what the characters think or feel

• objective

• first person

• third person

• omniscient

This is where the narrator, who is not an actual character, tells the story and even the emotions of the main character.

• objective

• third person

• first person

• omniscient

This is where the narrator does participate in the action of the story and is telling the story according to how he/she perceives it.

• third person

• objective

• omniscient

• first person

It is basically your story that is stretched to accommodate the visuals.

• pre-production

• script

• structure

• plot

This specification will help the reader visualize the scene as you have seen it.

• dialogue

• scenes assigned by number

• time and place indicators

• descriptions of action