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By Ali Karama
Rabat-Salé
The spirit of
Syd Field and other screenwriting gurus have been present in Mekness, a town
near Rabat.The teaching is made by Allal El Alaoui who seems more convincing to give lessons on three act structure , themes , loglines and characters .
Actions
and reactions are also tackled before academic teachers coming from
education .The debate goes so far as the students mention reactions of charcters
in movies .From this context ,Allal refers to Robert McKee’s statement
that says ‘: "In
story, as in life, the number of different events that can happen to a human
being is limited. You win or lose; you fall in love or out; you suffer
injustice or get revenge; you become a better person or worse, you live or you
die. The list of actions that might impact a character's life is long... but
finite. Reactions, however, are infinite. Ideally, every character is a unique,
a one-of-a-kind combination of genes and experience. Therefore, how a
particular character reacts to the events of his or her life is unique to him
or her. Because reactions are character-specific, their possibilities are
endless. More than any other aspect of storytelling, how you handle your characters'
reactions spells the difference between originality and cliche, between good
writing and great. Fill your story with beautifully told events, then put your
energies, imaginings, and improvisations into reactions that are true only for
your characters and no one else."
Characters
should have values either protagonists and antigonists .Usually at the end of
the movie , protagonist is influenced by several values of antigonist and verse versa .So,values are important to shape
and form characters .The debate goes on talking about structure; the
spine of any scripts .Before you write, think of your ending of the story and do
not write dialogue until you finish your script .
اللحظات القوية التي مرت في مدينة مكناس حيث قدمت دروسا حول السيناريو انطلاقا من نظرية سيد فيلد ومرورا من خلال نظرية أخرى مغايرة لروبرت ماكي وليندا سيكير كما قامت الأكاديمية التعليمية الجهوية بمكناس باستدعائي للمشاركة كعضو للجنة التحكيم والتي تضم محمد شرف رئيسا وعلال العلاوي عضوا ونادية التازي عضوا وأخيرا هشام الممثل المتألق
