Every Film makers storytelling secrets

Film making is Storytelling

Everybody has a Story!

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The fundamental way to have something explained to us

starts with a Question

‘What’s the story?’

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Normally when we talk of telling our story through a film, we start visualising things and connecting pictorials.

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Creative instinct

Something like the sphere, which is not there in the picture, but it is there in your mind

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However, its little beyond that. The best film or a cinema that creates a story, is not merely on the screen in front of you, but on the screen in your mind.

In your film , you actually show the cones and our brain generates the sphere automatically. That’s how it is.

The Gestalt principle talks about it

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Gestalt Principles is also known as the "Law of Simplicity" or the "Law of Pragnanz" (the entire figure or configuration), which states that every stimulus is perceived in its most simple form. Gestalt theorists followed the basic principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In

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The Gestalt PrinciplesThe 5 Principles are:

SIMILARITY / CONTINUATION / CLOSURE /PROXIMITY / FIGURE & GROUND

It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.

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SimilaritySimilarity occurs when objects look similar to one another. People often perceive them as a group or pattern.

The example above (containing 12 distinct objects) appears as as single unit (rays) because all of the shapes have similarity

And in totality, it looks like a Sun. Is it a sun??

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Just opposite to the theory of similarity, you have the theory of dis-similarity as well.

The moon becomes a focal point because it is dissimilar to the other shapes. But you

are actually not having a moon or the stars.

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ContinuationContinuation occurs when the eye is compelled to move through one object and continue to

another object.

You need not connect the links. Your Mind will do it

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ClosureClosure occurs when an object is incomplete or a space is not completely enclosed. If enough of the shape is indicated, people perceive the whole by filling in the missing information.

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ProximityProximity occurs when elements are placed close together. They tend to be perceived as a group.

The nine squares above are placed without proximity. They are perceived as separate shapes. When the squares are given close proximity, unity occurs. While they continue to be separate shapes, they are now perceived as one group.

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Figure and Ground

The eye differentiates an object from its surrounding area. a form, silhouette, or shape is naturrally perceived as figure (object), while the surrounding area is perceived as ground (background).

Balancing figure and ground can make the

perceived image clearer. Using unusual figure/ground

relationships can add interest and subtlety to

an image.

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Probably you are wondering what it has to do with storytelling or rather film

making.

But trust me, it’s the basic fundamentals

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We perceive visuals on the basis of how human perception works. The brain is formatted to ignore and recognize the gaps. This is also known as illusory contours.

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The human mind is a pattern making machine. with partial information, the mind fills the gaps and creates a story.

Film making is all about consuming bits of information and arranging them into a timeline.

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Stories surround us; newspaper, books, conversations, commentaries, dreams, even interior monologues, we consume everything, This is very humane. We love stories, we live stories.

We trust our stories and challenge them at times

While doing a story with the camera, we also should know that

‘the camera never lies! ’

So, what is a story?I do not know what it is, but we need it to live, as much as we breathe.We are natural storytellers! We keep telling stories to ourselves

and sometimes to others.

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