Thousands of years of novels and a hundred years of movies, all culminate in understanding of STORY STRUCTURE to keep the audience engaged.
All this meticulous thought and drafting and rewriting to get the events to happen fast enough, gotta have something happen at page 10 instead of page 15, cause that would be too slow and people would get bored.
It's so important to keep that pacing up for the story structure.
And then on the flip side we have podcasts, where its typically 2-4 people talking and it keeps listeners/viewers engaged for hours upon hours.
There's weekly podcasts that people look forward to more than their weekly television shows.
Podcasts are simply the talent shooting the shit, being natural, talking to their friends, with absolutely no planning or focus on structure at all and it doesn't seem to matter.
There are some movies that are almost podcasts.. like a couple people in a room talking the whole time, but there is always such a focus on drama and ramping up the suspense in those types of films. They're not usually comedies, or feel-good parasocial experiences.
Thoughts on podcast vs story structure as a source of entertainment?
Will a podcast ever become so successful it releases an episode as a feature film in theatres?
All this meticulous thought and drafting and rewriting to get the events to happen fast enough, gotta have something happen at page 10 instead of page 15, cause that would be too slow and people would get bored.
It's so important to keep that pacing up for the story structure.
And then on the flip side we have podcasts, where its typically 2-4 people talking and it keeps listeners/viewers engaged for hours upon hours.
There's weekly podcasts that people look forward to more than their weekly television shows.
Podcasts are simply the talent shooting the shit, being natural, talking to their friends, with absolutely no planning or focus on structure at all and it doesn't seem to matter.
There are some movies that are almost podcasts.. like a couple people in a room talking the whole time, but there is always such a focus on drama and ramping up the suspense in those types of films. They're not usually comedies, or feel-good parasocial experiences.
Thoughts on podcast vs story structure as a source of entertainment?
Will a podcast ever become so successful it releases an episode as a feature film in theatres?
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