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Overview of productions that use storyboards:
a) Television Advertising
b) Music Video
c) Theatre Production
d) TV Programs and Soap Opera
e) Short and Feature Films
f) Animation
g) Multimedia Productions

how to use camera angles, how to use distance

Jean-Luc Godard

Lenny Bruce

"Cinema is Truth, 24 Times a Second"

"The Truth is 'what is'. And 'what should be' is a fantasy; a terrible,
terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago"

My big complaint about cinema is that first of all it's an extremely poor narrative medium. If you want to tell stories, don't be a filmmaker, be a writer. There's a big problem here. John Cage said that if you introduce more than twenty-percent of novelty into any medium, you immediately lose eighty percent of your audience. I don't want to commit aesthetic or financial suicide, so I hope it doesn't sound patronizing but I have to travel slowly. To do that, I will have to abrogate the notions of why we go to the cinema, which for most people is to be told a story, which is in a sense an extraordinary contradiction. I challenge anybody in this room to tell me the story of 'Casablanca' or 'Titanic' in any detail, because what you come away with when leaving the cinema is not a notion of narrative or plot, it's to do with ambiance, perception of atmosphere, sense of place, performance, lines of dialogue and all those attributes which only the cinema can give you.

Most people, however, watch films just before they go to bed. What an act of confidence that is. Is cinema only our bromide to put us to sleep just before we have our cup of cocoa?

What I need to do is challenge the notion that cinema should be organized by narrative. If you just throw that completely out, you have a number of problems. First of all the audience is alienated, they don't know where they are. Secondly, what agenda, what structure, what glue do you use to keep the material together? Number counting, numerology and so on just happen to be other ways, and probably the most convenient. We all speak the same numerological language - whether we're in Tokyo, or Melbourne, Paris or Saas-Fee we understand the notion of number count.