today i talked to a drama/storytelling person who was talking about teaching students how to create specific emotional effects w/stories. +
@chrisamaphone @wirehead2501 and it wasn't that they did anything very different, just much more ham-fistedly manipulatively
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@chaosprime@wirehead2501 right, like... i don't know quite how to characterize that distinction but i feel it is real -
@chrisamaphone@chaosprime as a storyteller, you want to evoke emotions, but maybe it feels dishonest if it's an end in itself -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime so like either you'd better be honest or just *really good* at being dishonest? idek -
@chrisamaphone@wirehead2501 probably? :( i mean, there are works obviously done as award bait that nonetheless do a damn fine job -
@chrisamaphone@wirehead2501 maybe the difference between those and transparently cheesy award bait might be illuminating -
@chaosprime@chrisamaphone talking w/@dddagradi, he questions who those emotions benefit -- what are they in service of? $$ motivated? -
@wirehead2501@chrisamaphone@dddagradi $$ or whatever else, i feel like there's something in there about instrumentalizing your audience -
@chaosprime@chrisamaphone@dddagradi tho, this gets into the so-called purity of art and how we judge and mistrust successful artists - 5 more replies
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