The voice-over: friend or foe of the scenario?

Voice-over is often discouraged in academic scriptwriting textbooks, which focus on the dramatic situation rather than on an interiority considered potentially boring. And yet, many films, and even “mainstream products”, successfully use (...)

The writing of the screenplay in terms of the DVD

Does scenarios differently because of the existence and operation of the future is conceived on DVD ?It is of course difficult to generalize. You have to look in different areas. Let’s take two: film and corporate video. FilmIncreasingly, (...)

Spectra

A film by Benoît Labourdette, in collaboration with Louise Moaty (3’59s, 2014).

Charlotte Delbo’s words emanate from human traces of people who were living there a few hours earlier.

Mind mapping to build a script

One of the first difficulties of writing the script is the macroscopic structure, ie the general sense of the narrative. Forget Syd FieldThere are, of course, the famous “three-act structure,” dear to Syd Field (see his famous book (...)

The meeting

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’16s, 2011).

A meeting, like a thousand other meetings. No, it is your meeting.

How to write a screenplay ?

The fear of the blank page ... How to write a screenplay? Each has its engines, ways of inspiration, which are discussed shortly. Include Jean-Claude Carrière, who said “imagination is a muscle.”A common feature of all the writersThis is (...)

“Hello my beautiful”, transmedia play

Video capture of a collective creation directed by Benoît Labourdette. Played on March 26, 2016 at the CNSAD (15 minutes).

“Today, almost everyone takes the stage on digital networks, takes a presence in the gaze of others by self-portraits interposed. What about the place of our lives? What can the theater stage, representation, and poetic gesture put into motion (...)