http://cltlblog.wordpress.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://cltlblog.wordpress.com/about/#comment-538 Jhangora Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:58:56 +0000 #comment-538 A beautiful initiative. Wish you success. A beautiful initiative. Wish you success.

]]> http://cltlblog.wordpress.com/about/#comment-390 Michael Loewenstein Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:21:10 +0000 #comment-390 In his recent post, Robert Waxler discusses the nature of reading. I like this piece a lot. It does however make me wonder about a few things. I'm thinking no other storytelling experience is like reading. Why is that? Traditional storytelling, Theatre, Radio, Television and Motion Pictures involve us, sometimes deeply, but in significantly different ways than reading. Is it that some of these other forms don't require as much from the audience as reading? Is it the greater demand on the reader to participate that makes the experience so different. Do we think we "own"a story we read,more than one we watch in a theatre or on a screen? Are there some narratives that are better told as a play or movie? Does a written story read to you by another person have the same impact as the same story read to yourself? How about "Books on Tape" ? I have always favored the theatrical styles of Pirandello. I wonder if more of our Drama made the same demands on the audience as his work if it wouldn't be more fulfilling? (more like reading a book) Some of the best Television, ( long gone) tended to be more in that style. And lastly, how about this one, is a television campaign commercial more powerful than the old campaign leaflet? Having spent 41 years designing for PBS, I have given more than passing thought to these questions. In his recent post, Robert Waxler discusses the nature of reading. I like this piece a lot. It does however make me wonder about a few things. I’m thinking no other storytelling experience is like reading. Why is that? Traditional storytelling, Theatre, Radio, Television and Motion Pictures involve us, sometimes deeply, but in significantly different ways than reading. Is it that some of these other forms don’t require as much from the audience as reading? Is it the greater demand on the reader to participate that makes the experience so different. Do we think we “own”a story we read,more than one we watch in a theatre or on a screen? Are there some narratives that are better told as a play or movie? Does a written story read to you by another person have the same impact as the same story read to yourself? How about “Books on Tape” ? I have always favored the theatrical styles of Pirandello. I wonder if more of our Drama made the same demands on the audience as his work if it wouldn’t be more fulfilling? (more like reading a book) Some of the best Television, ( long gone) tended to be more in that style. And lastly, how about this one, is a television campaign commercial more powerful than the old campaign leaflet? Having spent 41 years designing for PBS, I have given more than passing thought to these questions.

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