September 2014
Beginner
536 pages
16h 56m
English
Documentaries are stories that aim to change our hearts and minds by organizing their characters, situations, and pressures toward a revelatory purpose. They mean to expand our knowledge and alter our emotional frame of reference.
This chapter looks at the relationship between the chronology of documented events, their organization into a satisfying dramatic form, and the way in which a story’s dramatic needs may require reorganizing a story’s events for maximum impact.
The filmmaker and philosopher Michael Roemer suggests intriguingly that plot in fiction is really about the rules of the universe at work, and ...