Ira Glass on Storytelling #1
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Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.
http://www.current.tv/studio/survivalguide/?section=storytelling
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I guess we ignore that, just don't think about it, huh.
Journalists report NEWS. TAL is usually anecdotal stories. No "code of ethics" should be expected nor required, simply the art of telling a story.
The Showtime series started off not being as good as the radio show, but the episodes "Two Wars" and "John Smith" rival the radio show. Hopefully that quality continues.
I highly recommend you check it out.
TAL isn't art.
That is truly the view of an outsider who knows nothing about the medium. But talk away...
'There is a ton of art' Ummmm.... ok, didn't realize we measure art by weight...
TAL is a interesting show, Ira is a talented storyteller. I'm not disputing that, I find misrepresent and editing people to be manipulative. Interpreting events for the viewer (i.e. moments of reflection) is dictating how events should be viewed.
Storytelling in documentaries doesn't excuse misrepresenting those people in the documentar period.
BTW, making intelligent comments with this user name is difficult.
You are obviously not an artist, and if you are, you aren't a talented one, because you clearly don't understand what the definition of art is.
Aside policing 'what art is' as if there is some static definition of art, my point is that is TAL compromises the integrity of its 'art' as it is manipulative to 1) its cast and 2) its audience.
Ira Glass is an excellent story teller, I don't dispute that, and his procress is an artistic one, a commercial artist one but that is another can of worms. His subject matter though is real people being editing to specefic ends and inforced by ready made interpretation for the audience.
Though people who can spell anecdote are the ones whose criticism is taken seriously.
I've known what an anecdote was since 7th grade.
Then again, maybe it makes sense to me because I am a journalist. Let's stick to what we know.
Take any random nonfiction story. There is a way you could tell this story that would make it sound more uninteresting than it is. Or, you could tell the same story with all the same true facts in a way that would keep a reader's attention. Form doesn't trump content; it's more like putting a nice frame on a painting with rough edges. Much nicer to look at. This is the art here. Nothing changes about the information presented.