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kuntilanak 2 - mari belajar struktur sekuel cerita seram?

The audience may put together what is going on in advance of the characters in the story; the identification of the monsters (kuntilanak) by the characters (Sam, Agung, etc) is phased in after the prior realizations of the audience. That the audience possesses this knowledge, of course, quickens its anticipation. Moreover, the audience often is placed in this position because it, like the narrator, frequently has access to many more scenes and accident, as well as their implications, than are available to individual characters. This type of structure is quite common. The audience, then, often has a fuller picture of what is going down, or, to shift metaphors, the audience has more pieces of the puzzle than do the characters, which perspective results in the audience coming to its discovery in advance of the characters, and, thereby, elicits a keen sense of expectation from the reader or the viewer. ~ REF: The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll [ms.100] Salaam.. Kuntil

Q&A [e-mail]

Assalamualaikum saudara Ajami Hashim. Saya Wim binti Yurnel pelajar jurusan Senireka Grafik, Uitm Shah Alam. Saya memohon budi baik saudara untuk menjawab soalan ini dari sudut pandangan saudara dalam melengkapkan tesis saya yang bertajuk : 'design issue:perkembangan penulisan skrip di malaysia'. Diharap saudara dapat membalasnya dengan kadar segera. Kerjasama dari saudara amat saya hargai. 1. Apakah sebenar permasalahan yang melanda filem tempatan sehingga kurang mendapat sambutan dan kualitinya sering dikatakan kurang bermutu? Jalan cerita kurang menonjol? Kekurangan pelakon yang berbakat? Ataupun peminat sendiri yang terlalu memilih? > Kejayaan atau kegagalan sesebuah filem bergantung kepada 'sebelum' 'semasa' dan 'selepas' ia dibikin. Sekiranya ia dihasilkan dari sebuah skrip yang bagus, diproduksikan dengan kemas [penerbit, pengarah, pelakon, produksi] dan dipromosikan dengan luas - filem itu akan berjaya di pasaran dan di festival. Sekirany

spec script?

A spec script is a "speculative" screenplay, one that the Variety slanguage dictionary defines as being "shopped or sold on the open market, as opposed to one commissioned by a studio or production company." Spec scripts are written for various reasons: 1. by writers, who hope to have a script optioned and eventually purchased by producers or studios; 2. by writer/directors, who want to direct a film themselves; 3. by amateur writers hoping to convince a literary agent to represent them or a producer to hire them.

asli vs. imitasi?

"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness." ~ Herman Melville (penulis novel Moby Dick ) Salaam.. Aku dah buntu. Tak tahu nak habiskan cerita yg mana satu? Semuanya ada yg tergantung di tengah, di tepi, di hujung dan kadang2 di awalnya sekali! Bayangkan hampir 2 tahun lebih aku membaca buku, menonton wayang, vhs, vcd & dvd.. aku masih tidak dapat mencari identiti sendiri. Hampir kesemua yg aku jumpa sudah ada empunya. Lalu, di manakah ia? Sebuah cerita asli yg bukan imitasi? Kamu beritahulah.. UPDATED: 11AM melalui sms.. aku: apa nak buat bila kita ada 1001 cerita nak diceritakan tapi satu pun tak habis?.. lagi teruk bila tiada satu pun dari cerita itu yg menarik? mentor: don't write stories from imagination.. write them from experience. aku: tq dear.. cuma pengalaman saya tiada yg menarik!.. matilaa i nak jadi 'penulis skrip tanpa cerita

ajami ucapkan pada kamu!