Usually long film was structured in 5 acts - because of: 1) the length of a film reel - for 90 min movie the material was split into 5 reels, longer material couldn't be projected. And every author as well as Director these days knows about the length of a reel-act, so they wrote and directed in a way that there could be a short break to change the reel in cinema. So scenes were written and directed in a way that every reel became one act from dramaturgical point of view. dramaturgical That changed with new machines and new techniques of projections, then (in the 70s) it was possible to project longer material, later the technique makes possible to project a long film without changing the reels. 2) The book by Gustav Freytag: "Technique of Drama" was translated into US-English in the late 19th century and gave the basic knowledge / dramaturgical pattern for Hollywood screenwriting. Freytag was explaining the 5-act-structure what he had known best, this was the traditional European Drama Structure - bu not the only one - since the Renaissance.

Dr. Kerstin Stutterheim
Professorin für AV-Mediendramaturgie/-Ästhetik
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf"
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From: Julian Friedmann [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:27:30 +0100
Subject: This might be of interest

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David Bordwell has asked me to circulate this query. Does anyone on the
network know of research into the history of the three-act structure?
David has found no references to it as a principle of construction
earlier than the mid-1970s. (Unpublished memos he's seen sometimes refer
to the "first act" or the "last act" but not to the idea of three acts.)
He would be grateful for any ideas or information. Please write to David
directly at [log in to unmask], as he has had no luck getting onto this
listserv. Thanks!

And thank you.

db

On 12/30/2011 8:04 AM, Line Langebek wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Season's greetings and all best for 2012!
>
> Many of you might be reading Indiewire's articles anyway, but for those that don't - or who might've missed this one, I thought this particular article might be of interest to the network:
>
> http://blogs.indiewire.com/tedhope/academic-cinema-merging-theory-with-practice?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Ted%20Hope&utm_content=#
>
> All best
> Line
>
> Line [Lena] Langebek
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian MacDonald [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:50 AM
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Subject: SRN emails and discussions

Dear all

The Steering Group has occupied quite a lot of server space lately with wide-ranging discussions and suggestions. Some of this has also reached the whole Network, which might be a bit confusing!

I suggest we separate out our burgeoning business.

I'm delighted people are discussing screenwriting issues daily now - that's what the Network was set up to do! It needs that free-flowing social network approach, and I'm pleased to say we already have a Discussion Room. You should see this on your jiscmail Home Page, towards the RH side. You'll need some Java software (all available through jiscmail), and maybe some adjustments to your firewall. Then you can access the DR and post ideas/respond in real time. You can save your discussion and can ask SRN to place this in the Files section.

The business of the Steering Group concerns the running of the SRN, and messages for the specific email list for the SRG should be restricted to items relating to this topic.

The Steering Group is also now working on formalising the SRN, with a constitutional structure. I have called for 5 volunteers to help with administering this process. The intention is to bring a suggested structure to the SG in the New Year, and after a short time, suggest an agreed structure to the whole membership. If agreed, it would be adopted by the AGM in Sydney 2012. Comments and suggestions welcome from all. However, at this stage, it is best to send them only to me at [log in to unmask]. The full debate will happen later.

Any general message/news/new publication/everything else will continue to be posted to the SRN as usual. More info will follow on conferences from 2014 onwards, for example.

In the near future, it is intended we should have a separate website. I am working on this now with Jamie Sherry from Bangor University, Wales. Any comments or suggestions should also be sent to me in the first instance.

You might also like to note that our current membership exceeds 200, following the successful Brussels conference!

Best wishes to all

Ian

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