ABSTRACT
A film Storyteller is seldom an identifiable person delivering a perspective in voice-over. Human experience and human communication always involve one or more vantages, so what film directors put on the screen should do so too. When effective screen storytelling relays the appropriate human perceptions, we the audience experience the story from the vantage of a beating human heart. Human attention shifts from subjectivity to objectivity, from past to present and back again, from looking at a crowd as a phenomenon, to looking at a parent struggle to safely push a baby stroller through the throng. Learning the “how” of cinematic technique is fairly simple but understanding the “why” takes deeper investigation into film directors' own work and the work of others. An essential component of any filmmaker’s development is to closely analyze existing films, scenes, and sequences. Every filmmaker will agree on one point: film directors learn about making films only by making them.
