Olga Kononova - Mobile Filmmaking. 100 steps to making a movie with your smartphone

To make a reportage about an event, it’s enough for you to get to the right place at the right time and catch the vibes. But for a feature film, you must first have a script. Every script is based on an idea. For a video essay, you don’t have to have a script, but an idea that’s been thought through and developed makes a difference too. If you’re the only member of your shooting crew, you can afford not to have a written script, but you must thoroughly think through what it is you’re going to shoot. To do that, you only need to answer a few questions. What is it you’re trying to say with your video? How will your clip be different from others? Why should the viewer watch it? After answering these questions, you’ll be able to specify your idea. Then try thinking of a few ways to implement it. What might your film look like? Where is it set? Who or what is the main character? Perhaps you yourself are the hero of your story? Try retelling your idea to your friends, but not in order to get their approval. The only thing you’re interested in at this point is whether or not they understand what you’re trying to say. By answering the questions, you’re articulating for yourself in a more precise fashion what it is your film will be about.

Find all the information that’s available that has to do with your idea. You need references – that is, works that overlap with your subject in one of its parts or in a motif: films, books, paintings, music, video art. You can take works from any of the arts if there’s something in them that’s going to suit your project: color scheme, light, a plot element, an edit transition, a mood. You can draw inspiration from other, related areas: design, animation, theatre, contemporary music, performing arts.

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Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative (New York: Workman Publishing, 2012).

A document in which the director describes his/her artistic and organizational vision for the film.