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František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – February 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences. [1]
In film, a sequence is a scene or a series of scenes that form a distinct narrative unit to advance the narrative, usually connected either by a unity of location or a unity of time. [1] Each of these sequences might further contain sub-sequences. It is also known by the French term, "plan séquence".
Some notable institutions celebrating film, including both national film institutes and independent and non-profit organizations.For the purposes of this list, institutions that do not have their own article on Wikipedia are not considered notable.
The film initiated so many advances in American cinema that it was rendered obsolete within a few years. [10] Though 1913 was a global landmark for filmmaking, 1917 was primarily an American one; the era of "classical Hollywood cinema" is distinguished by a narrative and visual style which began to dominate the film medium in America by 1917. [11]
This was a novel development, marking the first time a previsualization artist reported to the film's director and not the visual effects supervisor. Since then, previsualization has become an essential tool for large scale film productions, including the Matrix trilogy , The Lord of the Rings trilogy , Star Wars Episode II and III , War of the ...
Transnational cinema debates consider the development and subsequent effect of films, cinemas and directors which span national boundaries. The concept of transnational flows and connection in cinema is not a new term – judging by film history and the increasing number of book titles that now bear its name – but the recent theoretical and paradigmatic shift raises new attention and questions.
The sequence approach to screenwriting, sometimes known as "eight-sequence structure", is a system developed by Frank Daniel, while he was the head of the Graduate Screenwriting Program at USC. It is based in part on the fact that, in the early days of cinema, technical matters forced screenwriters to divide their stories into sequences, each ...
Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication. However, structuralist film theory differs from linguistic theory in that its codifications include a more apparent temporal aspect.