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anyone when everything is really important uh... if you're making stories
for television or radio is that you understand the building boxes stories
and and their different ways to think about this
one of the things you don't want to do is you don't think that the way the
landing in high school which is a high school were all tired of the way that
you write is that there's like a topic sentence and then there's like the fax
which fill out the argument
in broadcasting is completely different broadcasting i think you have to basic
building blocks and they're very powerful and you can use and that you
will
and winans the anecdote and i think that is literally just a sequence of actions
if you think of it is just a link what is a story in its purest form estranged
responsibly saying this happened
and that led to this next thing and that led to this next thing that led to the
section of one thing following another
and some other things in the sequence to be
and that made me think of this and then i said this like to be thoughts and
ideas as part of a public one is leading to the next leads the next
and the power of the activities is so great
that no matter how in a way that no matter how boring materialist it's an a
story form where with his manager happening they said this to me and then
when he and i came downstairs and i felt like what the hell
the it has a momentum and of itself
that no matter how boring the facts are concerned they believe in it
but the good news that you know trading like a miserable and possible
strengthens our guy
and uh... and he wakes up and uh...
and he's lying in bed in the house is very very quiet just unearthly quiet
to sit up
and he possessed him before he wants to do it has been around and again just
and very quiet
walks down the stairs
just unusually quiet
that make this is the most like one telling you is the most morning possible
fact pattern and yet
the suspense and it feels like something's gonna happen
and the reason why is because literally it's a sequence of events like
discussing this he's moving from space it is you can feel
through its form that when you have one thing we did to the next thing is that
you can feel inherently
that you're on a train that has a destination and that is gonna find
something and so one would most probably due to figure out is like due to start
with the action regina and should you start with the action to know you want
to start with the action
where you are going to
so so that so that's one of your building blocks
the other thing that airline ticket has is that it's raising a question from the
beginning and that's the only thing you want is you want eight
going to constantly be raising questions tonight will story that baby is
that the house is very quiet answer the question hang in the area is why
and it's in part of the any question you raise
you're going to answer
and so again that's another thing you and manipulate it would be constantly
raising questions and answering them from the beginning of the story and that
the whole uh...
shape of the story
is that
is that you're throwing out questions to keep people watching or listening and
then dancing along the way
sis's so
so you have
the building block which is like the actual sequence of actions the anecdote
part of it that this thing happened on the stand in this thing that's one
building block than the other big building block your other tool
is that you have moment of reflection
and that i mean at some point somebody's gotta say here's why the hell should
listening to the story
accused the point of this story here is the biggest something that we're driving
at here is why i'm wasting your time with all this
and one of things that's very very unfortunate for people who are lighting
and the kinds of jobs that that all the people who are making com video pods
uh... are launching into weddings that so very sad and it's like the bane of my
existence of the benefit anybody's existence he does this kind of work is
off and
nearly two parts of this and that the two parts of the structure you've got
the anecdote and you've got the moment of reflection and after
he'll have an anecdote which just
kills its just so interesting
this thing happens in a reason that cynicism is so surprising in so many
things happen you need these great characters and it means
absolutely nothing argued jesse just indicates that it's just completely
predictable way doesn't it doesn't tell you anything new
and so that's one huge problem and then the other huge problem is you gotta
kinda boring set of facts are boring story read but actually like somebody
accessing coventry things said about it and so it's ok actually
i think a lot of this week and then we're beginning we get caught in the
problem uh... we know we've got something here
we know there's some hints kind of compelling but it just doesn't seem to
be coming together and often
it do your job to be kind of ruthless and understand that either you don't
have sequence of actions of the story part that works where you don't have a
moment of reflection networks antigone growth and a good story you're gonna
flip back and forth between the two like to be a little bit of action and some
will say something about it not be a little more actions will say something
and that's really out like a lot of trick of the whole thing
you know is these two is t is to have the cursive iran's
that you've got
an interesting anecdotes then you also uh...
can end up with an interesting numbers reflection
that will support it and then the two together interwoven
india three minutes of six minutes have among your story is
will make something this large incise part