Storyteller - Martin Scorsese

"If you haven't got a story, you haven't got anything." Is how Martin starts this chapter off and I think this is one of the best lines I've heard about film making. I've made a bunch of crap, some of the crap has some nice shots but the main reason that it's crap is because It's not had a compelling story or the story felt disjointed. Now I'd like to think that I've become a lot better on creating stories, as it's one of my main passions and I've felt like that I'm slowly become more of an mature writer and trying to mold my ideas into something that can be great, which I've seen when creating the script for the ideas generation unit.
Some of the ideas I want to work on are slowly becoming good (I think) but I need to remember that I'm the entertainer for the audience and that sometime even if I don't like it I've to follow certain things because it's what the audience expects when watching a film.
These are things like film conventions, stereotypes, formulas, cliches and genres because it's all things that audiences have come to expect when watching a certain genre. For example a fantasy will have a hero that goes through a journey from being nothing to being worthy of their title, going against a villain that has taken or threatening someone or something dear to the hero. 

Another important part of a film is creating emotion, something that one of the first real director tried to do being D.W Griffith, he tired to make the audience feel worry, fear to excitement and happiness. I too have experimented with emotion in films with the biggest success being the Ambleside film, where we make the audience feel grief followed by success followed then by worry for the young boy's life with happiness when the audience finds out that he's alive. I still feel however that it's something that I need to work on as it's a big part of keeping the audience's attention not wanting them to get bored or getting distracted from the film.

Another thing that Martin mentioned was how directors slowly pushed these boundaries to keep audiences on their toes as directors twisted these narratives into something that audiences hadn't seen before,

The last thing I want to mention is a something mentioned by Shakespeare "Each man in his time plays many part" now this is something that I love because I say far too often that a character is too flat. Characters need to complex not having sometimes a good or bad character personality but more of a grey moral standard. Thanos could be a good example, He's doing something evil for sure.(I mean wiping out half the universe isn't exactly a good thing) but he's do have a just reason in doing so, with many people agreeing that what he did was wrong but would benefit everyone who's still alive allowing them to thrive. And I think there should be more of this in films, with characters not being so cut and clean like the Luke Skywalkers of film.