stanislavski
in class today, we talked about personas and scenarios. how do we create scenarios such that we can effectively communicate the usefulness of a new product? this was the main question the lecture sought to address. one of the lecture slides had a quote by stanislavski on it. before i write the quote, stanislavski (for those of you who do not know) was a russian actor and theatre director (who died in 1938). his views on acting are still honored by the artists of today. here's the quote:
“. . . all action in the theatre must have an inner justification, be logical, coherent and real.”when i saw this quote in class, i wondered, "and why not off-theatre just the same?" if for every second of reel life one must have a "why", indeed why should it be any different for real life? i don't believe it should, but there is hardly enough time to do so, given the pace at which we live our lives. more the reason that we need to slow 'it' down, so we can inculcate the habit of acting only when our action will satisfy the above-mentioned requisites.
2 comments:
interesting. i've read something similar about short stories or novels...or perhaps films themselves :) i forget. but i wonder how tightly the 'why' has to be related to the story at hand. for example in the scandinavian hand-held camera style of film-making...lots of irrelevant (to the ultimate storyline) scenes are filmed (i think) with the purpose of drawing the viewer in and keeping him actively thinking and seeking out what is relevant and what is not.
so they have a purpose, right? a why?
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