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Stories We Tell (2012)

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DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?

AI✦Analyses the film’s use of interviews and re-enactment as a structural tool that forces the audience to question the ethical sourcing and authenticity of the material being presented, making the mechanics of storytelling itself the thematic question.✦

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Theme · Words · Structure | 22 SEP 2024

Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!

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In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools to look at other ways that filmmakers - whether they be directors, writers, editors, or anyone else - can make the audience feel their ‘hand’ more. To that end, Mel, Stu and Chas dive into ADAPTATION, STORIES WE TELL and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION… →

Films: Adaptation (2002) , Stories We Tell (2012) , The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

Theme: Narrative Aesthetics , Theme

Words: Direct Address , Fourth Wall

Structure: Thematic Question

"So I think it’s playing with these things in two ways, right? So we have the ambiguity over what is real, what is not, how, for lack of a better word, ethically sourced or how authentically sourced this material is."

— stu | DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience