Moving Images, Understanding Media

260 Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding Media

It is possible for the premise of a story to be the starting place of a writer.

It can be the “aha!” moment of imagining a particular action or turning point

in a confl ict between two people. Th e previous two examples are for short

fi lms, but similar exercises can be done for longer formats, such as television

programs or feature fi lms. When a viewer is introduced to a motion picture

such as a television program or feature fi lm, the premise is typically used

in the selling of the movie, whether a thirty-second advertisement, a movie

trailer, or on occasion a poster.

Figure 7-10 Key dramatic

moment in The Man Who

Knew Too Much, directed

in 1934 by Alfred Hitchcock.

(Courtesy Gaumont British/

Photofest)

Figure 7-11 Director Rob

Pearlstein and actor Kevin

Pollack on set for Our Time is

Up. (Courtesy of Rob Pearlstein)

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