Sunday, April 26, 2009

Storytelling and Television

we live in screenworld
clipped from www.netvibes.com
As TV, landing on the moon is boring
Conversely, the adventures of the Star Ship Enterprise, also a video-driven space adventure, is far more compelling.
The fact that Star Trek is fiction and the moon landings are real is, for all intents and purposes, immaterial.
In Screenworld, does ‘reality’ matter any more?
For us, Iraq has become just a bad movie, a kind of Waterworld that simply has no plot (like the original) and no end (also like the original).
What must we now do?
adapt the ‘rules’ of visual story-telling, but marry them to real life.
characters, an arc of story and a sense of adventure.
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