Memoria de dirección
English translation: director's statement
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peer agreement (net): +1director's creative guidelines Explanation: might work MEMORIA DESCRIPTIVA DEL PROYECTO - navarra.eshttp://www.navarra.es › appsext › DescargarFichero Memoria del director donde se establecen las bases creativas del proyecto. ○ Memoria de producción. ○ Carta de aceptación del director si la solicitud la ... 4 pages Boletín Oficial de Navarra del 22/6/2015 | Dateas.comhttps://www.dateas.com › docs › 201... Translate this page Jun 22, 2015 — Se deberá presentar para su valoración: Memoria del director donde se establecen las bases creativas del proyecto. Memoria de producción. |
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peer agreement (net): +1director's statement Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director's_statement Some professional of movies granted me is that -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2021-08-09 19:29:42 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- A director's statement is a written description whereby a film director explains the motive and vision behind making a particular film. It is usually included in a proposal to producers or financiers, or in press material made available for distributors, film festival programmers, journalists, and critics.[1][2] But what exactly is a director’s statement? Where a screenwriter might be asked to provide a synopsis for the script so that interested parties can gain a better understanding into the writer’s mind, a director might be asked for a written proposal of his vision for a film. It’s the director’s interpretation of the script, and the leading tool in its production. This could include the technical aspects of a film, such as framing and focus, as well as the practical ones–i.e. the film’s budget. But it’s not as daunting as it sounds, and is actually quite fun to write. Who reads it, and why? So who asks for a director’s statement? Well, it depends. If your film has not yet been made, and consists only of the writer’s script, you could be applying for funds or grants from funding bodies to cover your proposed film budget. Perhaps you’re kickstarting a campaign for the same reason. Or maybe you’re submitting your project idea to a competition. Whatever the case you’ll probably have been asked for a director’s statement. Sometimes directors even use a statement to send to their cast, just to get them in a similar mindset. Mostly, this is to give people the information as to how, as a director, you plan to make the scriptwriter’s idea come alive. If, on the other hand, your film has already been made, and you’re pushing it into a festival run, your statement might be needed for one of two reasons. One, so that parts of it (such as synopsis, logline or your objective as a director) might be included as part of your film’s summary, or two, it might be used as part of a press pack, so say that your film was a runner up/winner, you wouldn’t need to be as thoroughly interviewed a you would have been had reporting bodies not been sent your statement already. They could report on your film using your statement as a reliable source. How long does it have to be? Usually no longer than one side of A4. It needs to be brief and to the point. Remember, the statement is used as reference, and people won’t want to skim through an entire essay. So make sure not to go over the required word count, especially if specifically stated in the guidelines you’re adhering to, which are usually strict about length/word count. Here your summary skills will be called onto, as information is key. What goes inside? Story It’s always good to set up the premise of your film. What is the story about? Here you can give away the main synopsis in a few sentences. You can talk about your main character, his or her dilemma, and the stakes of your story. Also, What genre does it belong to? And the time period? Is it a modern-day horror? A fantasy-adventure film set in the desert? A mystery thriller neo-noir film that makes you feel just a little bit sick to the stomach? (That’s looking at you, Oldboy) You can also talk about the film’s genesis. To what do you owe the idea’s origins and why do you identify with it? Themes What is the main theme of your film? Every film has got one, so think carefully! Even if you’re not sure, this is a good time to read through the script again with a critical eye. Are you going to be representing loneliness? Exploring an existential dilemma? Is it a man versus nature epic? Are you weaving a tale of revenge? There will probably be a lot more underlying themes in your film, and these make up the subtext section of your project. You don’t have to touch on them all! Just the ones you think relevant. Vision As a director, you’ll have thought about the visual style, the aesthetics your film will adopt, and the visual choices you make that will complement the scriptwriter’s theme. This can include anything from editing choices to production design, but whatever you include, make sure it stands out. What are your colour choices? Do the colours you’re going to use represent the themes you’re trying to evoke to the audience? So cold colours (greys, blues) to evoke isolation or warm tones for an idyllic feel? Will they match actors’ costumes? Talk about your framing and focus, how you’re going to film, what mood or special effects you want to use, really anything visually important you want to include to show your project’s unique voice. This could also be technical difficulties you expect to or have faced throughout production. Purpose If you’re writing this in application of funding, it can’t hurt for you to write what exact purpose you want the funding for. Do you already have a budget that lays out each expenditure you’ll need? You could give a quick overview as to what purpose your funding will serve. Is it for equipment, actors, festivals or specific on set locations? Also, why as a director, do you want to do this? Is it to raise awareness on an issue? Do you want to have a social impact? How will your story affect other people? Again, this is all up to you, it’s the director’s vision, and everyone is unique in their own way. It’s your time to shed a light on the way you want to work and how you want to achieve your passion. The director’s vision complements the writer’s script in a way that it become the script’s progression. It’s the next step towards the production of a film, the director’s blueprint, a map of sorts that can serve as a guideline for multiple reasons. And only the director’s statement can really let people know exactly how the script will be transferred from page to screen. Your vision, if it’s been well thought out and thoroughly developed, will separate you from the competition and shine a spotlight on your potential. Remember, it’s the way a film is told that makes the story unique. Elena Alston Elena Alston is a freelance writer and editor based in London. She writes about technology, screenwriting, culture and travel–and has a knack for bringing brands to life with words. There are two things she can’t live without: books and the sea. Not necessarily in that order. https://www.societyinmotion.com/2017/07/directors-statement/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2021-08-09 19:45:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/memoria-del-director... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2021-08-09 19:46:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Topic: SUBMISSION TIPS FEATURED How To Create A Compelling Directors Statement Or Writers Statement Mikel Fair ByMikel Fair How To Create A Director's Statement Why Does Your Director's Statement Matter To Film Festival Judges And Attendees? This article is from chapter 6 of the book, The Film Festival Submitter's Handbook. Have you ever watched a television show or movie and realized that it didn't quite make sense? Did you google search the film and try to find answers? You see endless opinions about what the storyteller was trying to communicate, but without hearing it from the Director or Writer's mouth, you're just guessing right? If a judge watches your film or reads your screenplay and is slightly confused about what you were trying to accomplish with this piece of art, do you think that you're going to get a 10 out of 10 rating? In some cases, if the content was meant to be mysterious, vague and thought provoking, then yes. But in most cases ... ebook-CTA-Oregon-Documentary-Film-Festival-Winter-2019-Event-Photo-34-Root-Shocked-1 Why Are Filmmaker Statements And Directors Statements Left Blank? This is probably the most overlooked and forgotten item that filmmakers and screenwriters leave out of their FilmFreeway submission details. It's the the FilmFreeway Directors Statement box. This includes Directors Statements for short films, feature films, web series, music videos or TV Pilots. This also includes Writer Statements for screenplays and teleplays. Don't miss this opportunity to explain your personal motivation, inspiration, experiences and challenges that lead to the creation of your submission. Unlike a biography, which talks about the general background of the content creator, the director’s statement or writer’s statement is more personal as it pertains to the specific submission that the judge or festival attendee is about to experience. I’ve noticed that the box on the film festival submission form for, Director's Statement, is commonly left empty. At most of our festivals, only about 50% of submission forms have a Director’s Statement at all. Some people will even put one sentence in the box that reads “I love Horror Films, Blood and Guts. I hope you like it.” One person even had something like, “If Charlie Chaplin and Charles Manson had a baby, you would truly understand what you just saw.” To this day, I still don’t know what that means. I encourage you to take this seriously. What inspired you? Was this an opportunity to use a specific location, actor or equipment? Did you shoot your film in Black and White? Why? Did you shoot your film in 4:3 aspect ratio, or Anamorphic for a specific reason? Is there a personal experience related to this film? Unlike a director’s biography, the Director’s Statement explains your personal connection to the film. Some (not necessarily all) of these statement ideas may help you create a strong Director’s Statement. I chose to direct this film because … While watching this film, I wanted the viewer to experience … Some of the challenges making this film included … I was inspired by the work of (blank) to create this film … Working with these actors and actresses was special because ... Working with this crew was fun because … We were fortunate to get the equipment for this film because … This film will always be special to me because … The film turned out to be a little different than the script because … We had some delays creating this film because … We were fortunate to raise the funds for this film by ... The experience working on this film will help me with future projects because ... Here Is An Example Of A Director’s Statement “I directed this film, Teen Broken Promises, after a friend, Sheila, moved 1000 miles away. Later, I found out she was spreading rumors about me. I came to realize that she was not a good friend at all. The main character in the film, Elsa, has a similar experience and plans to confront her friend, Julia, about her lies years later. Elsa finds out that Julia suffers from depression and is having thoughts of suicide. In my personal experience, volunteering at a women’s shelter, I met several women that struggled with dark thoughts. This inspired me create Elsa's character arc. The character’s anger turns to sympathy. She attempts to help Julia through a difficult time with communication and love, instead of confronting her with anger. We found the lead actress, Connie, through a long casting process. Her table read was amazing her performance in this film is so strong and emotional for me to experience. To this day, I am not sure what ever happened to my friend Sheila. Creating this film helped me deal with the pain I experienced years ago.” https://info.filmfestivalcircuit.com/blog/film-festival-subm... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2021-08-09 19:55:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Director's Statement or Direction Statement |
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Director's note Explanation: I think this is very close to your definition. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 23 hrs (2021-08-11 12:42:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- They’re the notes the director makes on the script or during shooting regarding production. It can be notes the director wants to remember or experimental notes with about directing a particular scene. It can be notes the director takes after a shot to remind them of something they like or didn’t like. It can be something a director gives the writer to adjust the script the next draft around. 8 POINTS YOU CAN MENTION IN YOUR DIRECTOR’S NOTE #1- Who is the director? Are you the scriptwriter and/or the producer f this project?(very briefly, previous works if any, any common themes in previous feature short films, etc) #2 – What or who is this film about? #3 – Why this film in particular? Why do you want to shoot it? (personal experience, influences, something you’ve read, a real story someone told you) #4- Why this location/ this character/ this theme? #5 – Why do you work with this producer? #6 – How are you going to shoot it? (Brief technical details, like type of camera, shots, color(s), sound, budget constraints, will there be CGI, how the color correction will be, the usage of music, the general atmosphere) #7- Why do you want to work with this special actor(s)/DOP if you have any in your mind? #8 – References of other works -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 23 hrs (2021-08-11 13:07:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Example: Taming the Garden - A large tree floating in the sea Director's Note Some time ago, the entire country of Georgia witnessed a surreal scene – a large tree floating in the sea. That was when we learned that the most powerful man in the country had a new passion – to own century-old trees on his private estate. Witnessing this image was like seeing a glitch in the real. It was as if I had seen something I should have never seen. It was beautiful, like real-life poetry, but at the same time it seemed to be a mistake, a kind of discomfort. I embarked on filming this process as Georgia’s whole coastline was involved in implementing one man’s desire. I wanted to explore what was behind this mesmerizingly strange image; to tell about the ambition of a powerful man, who alters landscapes, moves trees, leaves witnesses perplexed – all for the sake of his pleasure. I am fascinated by environments and how these environments affect people. More precisely, how we perceive others, and ourselves, in specific environments. The contradiction between settings and the people in them is what often drives my vision. To me, the film does not have a one-dimensional line as to what it is about. The material spoke of many different aspects of life, which found symbolic expressions in the film, such as the idea of manhood, or forced migration, or uprooting, which is not just a physical process. I also relate the theme of uprooting to my country, where values and a sense of stability is constantly floating. I see the film as an evocative journey into a surreal world, which paradoxically is also fact-based. We were filming for almost two years. I would travel with my small team to the coast each month to try to capture elements for the film. It was a challenging process as nothing was properly planned. We were dependent on the natural elements like wind, rain, unexpected circumstances in the workers’ routine, even the general political situation of the day. The process of transplanting trees was very slow and key elements would happen very fast. But the biggest challenge was connected to the local inhabitants. Since the wealthy man behind the scenes is also the most politically powerful man in the country, they were often scared to even appear in front of the camera fearing possible consequences, the fear which we, like other fragile democracies, have in our blood. https://tamingthegarden-film.com/en/directors-note/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 23 hrs (2021-08-11 13:09:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Example: Director's Note: Real Description of image Real is an authentic British love story showing at GFT from Monday 14 - Thursday 17 September. Enjoy this Director's Note from actor turned writer-director Aki Omoshaybi about the making of his debut feature, kindly supplied by Verve Pictures. Click here to book your tickets. I wanted to try and make an authentic film about how people navigate through the world of dating when they’re struggling to make ends meet. We mostly see romantic stories from an upper class/middle class perspective: big town houses in London, posh accents, floppy hair. So I thought ‘let’s tip that on its head’ and write something as authentic as possible, something that I’ve seen or could relate to. So I started writing Real. I wanted it to be an honest portrayal of a start of a relationship, when we only show what we want the person we’re dating to see. But as we progress the inevitable happens. We fall deeper. We open up more. And the closer we get, a different side emerges - especially when vulnerability is in the mix. I wanted to shoot REAL in a different landscape to London to show that quite a lot of the country are living in different circumstances to what we see on screen. Life still goes on in places where there’s not been investment in the area for so long, where there’s not a fancy bar or restaurant on every corner, and even if there was, no local would ever have enough the money to go. I also wanted to make a film with two Black protagonists where race and violence weren’t the main calling cards. I wanted to show them not just as humans living everyday life, but the struggles that come with that - something which happens very rarely for Black people in British Cinema. A simple story with complicated layers, when it came to the shoot I wanted the actors to lift the text off the page and bring this story to life with authenticity. Whatever ever the words meant to them, I told them to bring their truth but just don’t miss the beat/objective of the scene. I also wanted the camera to be a character of its own, with its own personality, so we did the whole shoot handheld, letting the audience watch the story unfold like a fly on the wall. Real is an honest look at Kyle and Jamie’s lives and I hope the audience feel a part of that journey. Aki Omoshaybi Director https://glasgowfilm.org/latest/news/directors-note-real https://www.mentorless.com/2016/02/27/film-log-9-how-to-write-a-directors-note/ https://www.quora.com/What-are-directors-notes |
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| Reference: memoria de dirección se diferencia de story-board Reference information: el story-board es algo muy visual, con dibujos o fotos que muestran la parte visual de la película la memoria de dirección es algo más literario o escrito, no encuentro ahora la equivalencia en inglés pero sí varias páginas en las que queda clara la diferencia https://guionistasvlc.wordpress.com/2011/01/ https://issuu.com/eldianu.curtiumetraxe/docs/eldianu_tfm https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/189877358.pdf -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2021-08-09 14:39:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- también encuentro que Director's Note se dice Texto de la Directora http://www.losañosazules.com/la-pelicula/texto-de-la-directo... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2021-08-09 14:45:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://francescasvampa.com/project/agua-y-mas-agua-vdr-mkt/ Notas de dirección Director’s note aunque quizá se acerca a eso de "memoria de d" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2021-08-09 14:52:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- aquí, una peli española creo, https://issuu.com/amasionfilms/docs/ellas_-_memoria_de_direc... dicen que es la "direction memory" pero me parece que no se usa, no da resultados claros te aconsejo preguntar en foros de cine en inglés o incluso en español. |
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