Writing

Why use special software to write a screenplay ? A screenplay goes, often in a standardized format, which boils down to something very simple: one page = 1 minute. A script page contains: numbers, title and details of scenes, stage directions (...)

31 January 2007

3 min

Writing the script of a documentary

Initially questions What is literature ? A look at the real ? A meeting between a filmmaker and a reality ? What is the value of a documentary ? In the quality of spontaneity, the truth of this meeting ? Spontaneity and truth are they two (...)

21 March 2006

3 min

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 Field There are, of course, the famous “three-act structure,” dear to Syd Field (see his famous book Screenplay), (...)

30 July 2009

5 min

Calligrams #01

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’23s, 2021).

Sixty poems on the principle of words forming a pattern, popularized by Guillaume Apollinaire. Link to original poems.

19 September 2021

“Scrivener” to write a script

Scrivener is probably today the best software to write a script. Synthetic discovery of this tool. Why a specific software to write a screenplay? Why would we need specific software to write a script? Don’t we just need a pen or a word (...)

15 July 2018

4 min

Written in the sand

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette, 4’48s, 2014.

Write, read, speak... but what ? And in what language ? I dont know... I listen without trying to understand.

18 July 2014

Le tableau

A film by Sylviane Bertrand and Benoît Labourdette (1’, silent, 2018).

A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.

21 March 2018

The garden of my childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: The child).

Leafing through the old photographs of the collective unconscious is to return to oneself.

3 June 2017

Bell tower

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2013).

On the way to autofiction, a conversation between a father and his son, played by the same voice.

25 January 2013

Love letters

6 August 2021

Calligraphy #1

Calligraphic explorations, unique words inspiring their form of drawing.

20 April 2018

1 min

Spin the cam’

Collective film (3’10s, 2019).

A revolt of objects against the Internet and its uses.

6 June 2019

Différences

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’30s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Albert D.).

Philosophy of techniques confronted with human sociology.

17 April 2017

Writing it

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).

Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.

30 September 2015

Test your scenarios with your mobile phone

A very simple use of the mobile phone can speed up the scriptwriting work. In many fields prototypes are made, which can also be called drafts, diagrams, wireframes, mockups... The prototype makes it possible to partially simulate the (...)

4 March 2019

3 min

Calligraphy #2

Words are discovered, stripped, met in the adventure of their freehand writing.

8 May 2018

1 min

16 moments of solitude

Collective film (6’15s, 2020)

Like a little story of writing and looking, from paper to screens.

7 February 2020

Poitiers film festival : writing workshop “Écrits sur Images”

Writing workshop based around photographs. This project was part of the 8th international film festival Filmer le travail in the city of Poitiers and was supported by the CCAS, the works council of EDF. The workshop took place on the 17th and (...)

18 February 2017

4 min

Infilmement small festival : drone workshop for teenagers

Explorer and challenge the imagination of the drone into action by the realization of a collective film. Infilmement small festival As part of the 4th edition of the film festival for high school students Infilmement small festival, I proposed (...)

21 March 2015

2 min

Identity

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’04s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Luc Finstein).

Ragey writing can be beneficial.

15 July 2017

Diversité

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’48s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Abel A.).

Our simple alphabet is in itself of great diversity. This diversity is indispensable to every expression, every creation.

17 April 2017

Poetry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2017).

When the intimate poetry becomes public.

15 December 2017

Choice of words

Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.

23 June 2017

Contents

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2019, muet).

Why do we let ourselves be photographed? Based on photos of Mark Neville published in Le Monde “M”.

26 November 2019

The book’s title

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’41s, 2021).

On the difficulty of writing, of forming a sensitive and true trace of the most intimate and precious things. Immersion in the head of an author in search of the memory of a moment of sensuality.

15 April 2021

My future

30 July 2021

Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.

29 October 2011

News from father

A movie by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2014).

Life on a blank screen...

21 September 2014

The unspoken words of the objects

Collective film (5’52s, 2014).

The unexpected little people of a movie theater.

26 January 2014

Inside time

Film by Benoît Labourdette (3’34 s, 2016).

Reading of the last paragraphs of “’Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust. Links between literature, painting and movement.

12 November 2016

Calligraphy #10

The intersection of the bodies of certain letters is the nature of this writing.

28 May 2018

1 min

Writing my thought (thought 372)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2019).

Where the activity of writing takes us unwittingly into unfathomable depths.

28 December 2019

University of Picardie: “New media, new writing, new funding”

Training new media in Picardy. Course open for registration. The training “New media, new writing, new funding” proposed by the University of Picardie and ACAP, from October 26 to 30, 2015 (duration: 30 hours) is aimed at professionals, to (...)

5 October 2015

2 min

Screenwriting

Tools and techniques of screenwriting and film project building.

Performing arts

Performing arts is my training and my initial culture. Young actor in the 90’s with among other La Compagnie du Chaland and Trottoir Express (France), I was teached to the work of the mask and the art of the jester with William Nedel. I also very (...)