Keep the Audience Hungry to Know
What does the audience want to know? Keeping them actively asking is the key to having them lean forward into the story. Editing for New [...]
Who Knows What? When? And How?
Successful storytelling hinges on choreographing a dance between characters and audience, with information as the music. Controlling the Flow of Information As audience members watching a [...]
Don’t Explain, Reveal
Don’t explain your story, reveal it and let the audience work things out for themselves. Aleksey Popogrebiskiy’s 2010 film, “How I Ended This Summer”, opens with [...]
Gold, Silver and Bronze Information
If the key to Audience participation is new information keeping the Active Story Question alive, then how do we judge what to believe? This post refers to ‘Keep [...]
