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  • Making memories
    Making memories
    Make the film sticky.
    By creating scenes in a setting and then returning to it with other characters unaware of what happened there, the screenwriter generates intimacy with the viewer, (…)
    14 March 2025
  • The trompe l'oeil technique
    The trompe l’oeil technique
    To make the film’s universe credible.
    The trompe l’œil technique, used in the old special effects method of “matte painting,” can be transposed to screenwriting to expand the film’s universe by suggesting (…)
    13 March 2025
  • Thematic groups
    Thematic groups
    Elaborate together.
    This method is a simplified and faster variation of the World Café method, which I have successfully implemented and tested. The goal is for each participant to (…)
    12 March 2025
  • Systematize mutual discoveries between cultural players
    Systematize mutual discoveries between cultural players
    Removing obstacles to cooperation.
    Common-sense proposal for better mutual understanding among cultural actors in the same territory. Why don’t we know each other well enough?In France, within the (…)
    11 March 2025
  • For a balanced consideration of characters
    For a balanced consideration of characters
    The art of creating physical sensations in the viewer.
    The visual comparison of weights carried by different characters creates a physical sensation in the viewer. These burdens, whether material or symbolic, reveal power (…)
    10 March 2025
  • Subjectivized reality
    Subjectivized reality
    The intelligence of tilting reality.
    Subjectivized reality, a cinematic technique where the viewer experiences as real what is only the inner fantasy of a character, creates a disturbing empathy and (…)
    9 March 2025
  • Use Chat GPT to structure your ideas
    Use Chat GPT to structure your ideas
    The proper use of machine reasoning.
    Generative AIs excel at organizing information thanks to their logical reasoning capabilities. By submitting our ideas to them, even in a scattered manner, they can (…)
    8 March 2025
  • Information retention
    Information retention
    Manipulation or narrative tension?
    Information withholding, a narrative technique that deliberately hides information known to the characters but not to the audience, creates tension and curiosity that (…)
    7 March 2025
  • The investigation process
    The investigation process
    Why so many cops on screen?
    The investigative approach fascinates and structures many narratives. Beyond police officers, convenient characters because they are legitimate to investigate, what (…)
    6 March 2025
  • Contactless application
    Contactless application
    To anchor emotions in the spectator’s body.
    Narrative technique aimed at creating a physical and emotional connection between the viewer and the characters by evoking a shared sensory experience, despite the (…)
    5 March 2025
  • The snake charmer's trick
    The snake charmer’s trick
    To build the rhythm of emotional breathing.
    Temporarily neutralizing narrative tension with a “charm” that lulls the opponent allows for the creation of an emotional rhythm akin to breathing. This technique (…)
    4 March 2025
  • Finding inspiration in scenery
    Finding inspiration in scenery
    For films that are both realistic and ambitious.
    Unlike pure imagination, writing directly in a real location allows you to draw from its unique details. The settings then become sources of inspiration, facilitating (…)
    4 March 2025
  • See a film or have it told to you?
    See a film or have it told to you?
    Take into account the actual location of the film after viewing.
    The screenwriter must consider not only the direct viewers, but also those who will be told about his work. These secondary stories, which have become multiple (…)
    3 March 2025
  • Replacing characters
    Replacing characters
    Touching the viewer’s subconscious.
    Cinema has the power to transgress the notion of fixed identity in characters. Works like Lost Highway or The Matrix reveal that a character can be replaced, (…)
    2 March 2025
  • Playing with narrative reconstruction
    Playing with narrative reconstruction
    Taking into account the viewer’s neural connections.
    Narrative reconstruction is a cognitive process in which the viewer actively creates neural connections to make sense of a story. This playful and particularly (…)
    1 March 2025
  • Confidence bias in algorithms
    Confidence bias in algorithms
    Fighting fear.
    Paradox: faced with AI, we doubt our human judgment while blindly trusting the algorithms supposed to detect them. This fear weakens us, whereas the real issue is our (…)
    28 February 2025
  • Presence and truth
    Presence and truth
    Investigation of a real critical mind.
    In response to Roger-Pol Droit, who laments the loss of a common truth, I argue that truth is necessarily complex, partial, and linked to our experience of the world. (…)
    27 February 2025
  • Listening to the Other
    Listening to the Other
    The frame’s foundation.
    For effective pedagogy, listening to students by the teacher is essential. Contrary to expectations, it is first and foremost the teacher who must listen to enable (…)
    26 February 2025
  • Fondation Afnic: General presentation of the 2025 call for projects
    Podcasts for the Afnic Foundation’s 2025 call for projects
    Formatting qualified information.
    Production of three podcasts to help better qualify projects submitted to the Afnic Foundation. Supporting the Afnic FoundationWe have been supporting the Afnic (…)
    25 February 2025
  • The emotional elevator
    The emotional elevator
    Ethics and manipulation in screenplays.
    The emotional elevator is a psychological manipulation technique that alternates between positive and negative moments to maintain control over the other person. This (…)
    24 February 2025
  • Are dialogues essential?
    Are dialogues essential?
    Method for (un)useful dialogues.
    Should all dialogues in a film be essential? I believe that every dialogue, every word spoken by an actor in a film, just like every shot, must be essential. There is (…)
    23 February 2025
  • A film in the past
    A film in the past
    Details on film running times.
    There are far fewer nuances in time in cinema than in literature. Cinema tells its stories mainly in the present tense, even if the past can intervene, notably (…)
    22 February 2025
  • Going down the stairs in reverse
    Going down the stairs in reverse
    The art of reverse flashback.
    The reverse flashback technique allows for exploring the origins of a situation by gradually moving backward into the past, enriching the understanding of the present (…)
    22 February 2025
  • Motion blur
    Motion blur
    An animated film technique at the service of the screenplay.
    The “motion blur” technique, essential in animation to create fluid, natural transitions, can be applied to screenwriting to make moments of narrative transformation (…)
    22 February 2025
  • The trick of telepathy
    The trick of telepathy
    For a rhizomic scenario.
    The narrative trick of telepathy proposes to integrate unexplained transfers of information between characters into the scenario, creating a rhizomic dimension that (…)
    22 February 2025
  • Distant editing
    Distant editing
    A powerful formal concept at the service of the script.
    The Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian, who has directed documentaries with a highly powerful and emotional form, such as « We », « The Seasons », or « Our Century (…)
    21 February 2025
  • Taking narrative capillarity into account
    Taking narrative capillarity into account
    Consider your scenario in relation to other scenarios.
    Contemporary audiovisual narratives are no longer perceived in isolation but as part of a network, creating a narrative capillarity where each piece of content (…)
    20 February 2025
  • What is a story?
    What is a story?
    On narrative fractality.
    A story is defined as the transformation of an initial situation into a final situation through a series of events. This change of state manifests itself at all (…)
    19 February 2025
  • In front of the glass roof
    In front of the glass roof
    Series of 87 mirrored photographs.
    We look at ourselves without looking at ourselves, we are ourselves in our empathy for the other, in the infra-ordinary.
    18 February 2025
  • The small group
    The small group
    A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2025).
    Are we free? How do we know? How do we live it?
    17 February 2025
  • The Push Button
    The Push Button
    For moments of boost at key stages of the story.
    In screenwriting, the “push button” is an action that triggers an irreversible mechanism, propelling the story into a point of no return, like a ticking timer. Used (…)
    17 February 2025
  • The key in the lock
    The key in the lock
    A tool for building narrative levels.
    Like a key in a lock, each narrative element must perfectly adapt to the context of the story to move it forward. A new character, setting, or prop possesses (…)
    16 February 2025
  • What is the purpose of a screenplay?
    What is the purpose of a screenplay?
    A transient and unlocatable object.
    A screenplay serves two functions: to convince and to organize. AI challenges this transitional format by enabling more flexible and interactive creation, without (…)
    16 February 2025
  • Film Your Scripts Instead of Writing Them !
    Film Your Scripts Instead of Writing Them !
    A Method for Writing and Creativity.
    Faced with a blank page, ideas are hard to come by. I propose a method that involves filming guided improvisations with friends, to generate authentic, inspiring (…)
    15 February 2025
  • The specifics of screenwriting
    The specifics of screenwriting
    How to write a screenplay?
    The role of the screenplay is to help people imagine a film and organize its production. It is for this reason that there are certain characteristics and formal (…)
    14 February 2025
  • The character identification process
    The character identification process
    Exploring the depths of fictional characters.
    How is it that we identify with fictional characters? In some films, the main characters are deliberately insipid, while the secondary characters, especially the (…)
    13 February 2025
  • Strategy, design and technical implementation of the “Azimut” platform
    Strategy, design and technical implementation of the “Azimut” platform
    The resource portal for artistic practices.
    I am supporting and leading, on behalf of the MPAA, in its current phase, the strategy, design, and technical implementation of this platform, using a unique method (…)
    12 February 2025
  • Presence and submission
    Presence and submission
    Temporal hypothesis of self-failure.
    To be present to oneself is to offer oneself the present time, the source of integrity. Submission denies this presence, stealing our vital energy. Little by little, (…)
    11 February 2025
  • The difference between image and sound from a neurological point of view
    The difference between image and sound from a neurological point of view
    A tool for audiovisual creation.
    Images and sounds exist through our perception. The eye and ear transform light and pressure into electrical signals, interpreted by the brain. This internal porosity (…)
    11 February 2025
  • The webbed finger technique
    The webbed finger technique
    To move stories forward in a powerful way.
    The technique of webbed fingers in writing links each narrative element to two others, creating a collective force that pushes the story and its coherence, like the (…)
    11 February 2025
  • The closing door theory
    The closing door theory
    Play on the viewer’s frustration to create narrative tension.
    The technique of suspense keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat by creating an information gap between them and the characters in the film. But it’s far from the (…)
    11 February 2025
  • Pour une robustesse coopérative des projets culturels
    Pour une robustesse coopérative des projets culturels
    Réflexion sur les modalités de coopération territoriale et d’évaluation.
    Pour que les projets culturels puissent trouver pleinement leur sens social et devenir plus robustes face aux attaques politiques qui les jugent « non essentielles », (…)
    10 février 2025
  • The script's little bike
    The script’s little bike
    For the rhythmic mechanics of writing.
    A screenplay is a narrative mechanism, like a bicycle: the energy of the characters and the story move forward in time, guided by precise gears. A useful metaphor for (…)
    9 February 2025
  • The importance of nature in a scenario
    The importance of nature in a scenario
    For an organic dimension in our relationship with films.
    How and why involving the natural elements in a script anchors the film in a deep relationship with the viewer. Our nature mobilizedWe are living beings who are an (…)
    8 February 2025
  • The idea bank
    The idea bank
    A treasure chest for the scriptwriter.
    Build a very simple, scalable and efficient tool to solve all types of problems in scenarios. What makes up storiesStories, mainly human ones, organize sequences (…)
    7 February 2025
  • Synthesis of the seminar: “What pedagogy by and for cultural rights?”
    Synthesis of the seminar: “What pedagogy by and for cultural rights?”
    Organized by UFISC, Opale, Réseau Culture 21, Observatoire des politiques culturelles, Laboratoire des droits culturels and Ligue de l’enseignement (February 6, 2025).
    Workshop to find out what stage the partners had reached in their work on the “cultural rights” certification referential project in the context of professional (…)
    6 February 2025
  • Conference by Benoît Labourdette: “EAC and cultural rights: convergences to be identified and implemented”
    Conference: “EAC and cultural rights: convergences to be identified and implemented”
    Dans le cadre des Rencontres territoriales “Artistic and cultural education & Territorial cultural projects” (Foix, February 5, 2025).
    How can cultural rights be a tool for better implementation of artistic and cultural education projects? And how we can identify convergences between the two, and how (…)
    5 February 2025
  • The sieve technique
    The sieve technique
    A solution for lack of inspiration.
    The sifting technique helps to overcome lack of inspiration. By collecting ideas unfiltered, then “sifting” them, the ones that shine like gold emerge, revealing (…)
    4 February 2025
  • Anthropomorphism and scenario
    Anthropomorphism and scenario
    Situating ourselves in the living world.
    Anthropomorphism dominates cinema, attributing human traits to non-humans. Faced with the Anthropocene, it is crucial to move beyond this perspective to tell the (…)
    3 February 2025
  • Dreams, psychoanalysis and scenarios
    Dreams, psychoanalysis and scenarios
    To work with the audience’s subconscious.
    Cinema and psychoanalysis, born together, explore the unconscious. The dream, at the heart of films, acts as a powerful narrative engine, blending reality and (…)
    2 February 2025