00:02:14 Julie McElmurry: When we have 2 intrepretrs at the D-Word, we have the intrepreters in charge of their cameras so they know when to change. 00:08:05 Julie McElmurry: I mustneeds take a 1 minute break. brb 00:10:55 Julie McElmurry: He'll be here, sometimes has connection problems. 00:15:47 Arthur Pratt: I,ll look for one 00:20:02 Alexandra Jimenez: Hello from Honduras 00:20:06 Sajil Hande: INDIA 00:20:07 Jacqueline Greff: Baltimore, MD 00:20:08 Joe Shapiro: Joe Shapiro in LA 00:20:11 Henna Mann: Toronto, Canada 00:20:11 Karisa Cruz: Hola! From Puerto Rico 00:20:13 hanna jacobsen: Boa tarde from Brasil! 00:20:14 Francesca Tosarelli: hello from Italy 00:20:15 Mariella Bussolati: Hi, I am Mariella from Italy 00:20:16 Mina Brooks: Mina in LA 00:20:16 Rees Dale: Berlin 00:20:18 Destiny Arturet: Tuning in from Philadelphia <3 00:20:20 Emma Goude: Hi I'm in England 00:20:20 Marriah Kern: LA 00:20:20 Eva Midgley: Eva, currently in Spain 00:20:20 Jim Bracher: Hello from Seattle (adjacent) 00:20:23 Gabrielle McNally: Hello from Michigan! 00:20:23 James Merkel: Jim from Belfast Maine 00:20:24 Malia Bruker: Florida 00:20:24 James Oppenheimer: Sf Bay Area 00:20:25 katie cameron: New jersey! 00:20:26 Carolina Vila: Los Angeles but originally from Venezuela 🇻🇪 00:20:28 Benjamin Cran: Victoria, BC 00:20:29 Dave Glynn: Dave Chicago 00:20:30 RYAN QUON: Brooklyn, NY! 00:20:32 Tony Ulchar: Charlotte, North Carolina 00:20:32 Taylor-Alexis Gillard: Taylor-Alexis, Queens NY 00:20:35 Mustafizur Rahman: Bangladesh 00:20:35 Jules Robertson: SF Bay Area 00:20:36 Fanny Hubart Salmon: Hello from Kentucky. 00:20:36 Lindsay LaPointe: Massachusetts 00:20:36 Jane Coombs: G’day from Australia! 00:20:39 Julie McElmurry: Thank you for coming from all over the world today! 00:20:43 Scott Lalonde - Toronto, Canada: Toronto, Ontario, Canada! 00:20:43 Cliff Decatrel: Hi All! From Los Angeles - Associated Press Productions 00:20:45 Chloe Motisi: Newark, NJ! 00:20:52 Geoffrey Smith www.storytime.dev: Fantastic range of countries! Even Australia! 00:20:56 Naixin Wang: Denver! 00:21:02 Sydney Combs: Hi from Louisville, Kentucky 00:21:06 David Kasper: Chapel Hill NC USA 00:21:06 Kathleen Espiritu: Hi from Toronto! 🇨🇦 00:21:11 Barmmy Boy: Barmmy Boy, Sierra Leone 00:21:11 David O'Shields: Hello from Iowa! 00:21:41 Dani de Jesus (she/her): Morning from Southern California! 00:21:43 D Munroe: San Francisco, CA 00:21:54 Brett Wallace: Hi everyone - I'm filming in Alabama 00:21:57 Raine O'Kelly-Rodriguez: Raine, from Brooklyn but working inNewark, NJ! 00:22:05 Kimberly Ford: Venice, CA :) 00:22:09 Michael Mugisha: Michael Mugisha Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker based in L.A. by way of Rwanda 00:22:32 Lauren David: Santa Barbara. Good morning. 00:22:38 Ucu Agustin: Hello from Baltimore 00:23:49 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Arthur Pratt. Check out his Freetown Media Centre! 00:23:58 Koval Bhatia: Reacted to "Arthur Pratt. Check …" with ❤️ 00:24:07 D Munroe: Reacted to "Arthur Pratt. Check …" with ❤️ 00:24:11 IDA: For more on Freetown Media Centre: https://www.freetownmedia.com/about 00:24:25 Peter Sherman Crosby: Tucson AZ where it SNOWED last night 00:26:08 Jim Bracher: Reacted to "Arthur Pratt. Check ..." with ❤️ 00:27:46 Destiny Arturet: 👏 00:30:00 Jim Bracher: Wow. Go Julie. 00:30:10 Geoffrey Smith www.storytime.dev: Wow Julie! 00:30:56 IDA: Welcome everyone to this IDA Workshop: Developing Engaging Stories. We are listening to our two hosts, Julie McElmurry and Arthur Pratt, describe their film schools as the introduction for this event. Julie and Arthur are current Getting Real Fellows: https://filmmakermagazine.com/116526-ida-getting-real-fellowship-2022/#.ZADZU-zMIqw 00:31:00 Destiny Arturet: Yes! Love the resourcefulness <3 00:31:32 Jane Coombs: Reacted to "Welcome everyone to …" with ❤️ 00:32:28 IDA: For more IDA workshops, Q&As, and seminars, take a look at our upcoming events calendar: https://www.documentary.org/events 00:33:27 Jane Coombs: Reacted to "For more IDA worksho…" with 👍 00:36:01 Teenaa Kaur: Hi Elizabeth,how are you? So glad to see your message.. You remember.. my goodness.. Lets connect .. I am in Mumbai, India,, teenaakaur@gmail.com.. Would love to know about what you are working on. 00:37:36 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: find me online: nonfictional.org Julie McElmurry. I'd love to meet people (I also work for www.d-word.com) 00:37:47 IDA: Geoffrey Smith is a double Emmy award-winning director who was at the BBC in London for over 13 years. He has made 24 films for all the major UK broadcasters, won over 40 major International awards, was listed in the New York Times Best Films list for his feature doc “The English Surgeon,” and his last two features sold widely, had theatrical releases and screened at hundreds of film festivals across the world. In love with cinema from an early age, Geoffrey is passionate about the power of documentary to reach wide audiences and ran his own film festival in Australia for 5 years. He is very much in demand as a consultant and story editor on a wide range of high-level international projects, and works intensely with directors and producers to get the very best out of their ideas and material. 00:37:56 PeterShermanCrosby-Tucson: Reacted to "Geoffrey Smith is a ..." with 👍🏻 00:38:03 IDA: Julie McElmurry bio: A self-taught documentary filmmaker, Julie started a local, community-based film school for adults to make filmmaking classes affordable and accessible. Money is often a barrier for people who want to learn filmmaking and Julie strives to negate that barrier by bringing together skilled filmmakers and adults who want to learn from them through live, in-person classes. 00:38:11 IDA: Arthur V. A Pratt is a Sierra Leonean filmmaker, and Pastor based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He is a co-founder and manager of the Freetown Media Centre program in Sierra Leone (the only film collective in the country) with numerous credits and awards for the films and plays he has produced. Film credits include; CHARITY 2010 (Writer/Director), which received festival awards at the Pan African Film Festival Los Angeles, Semana del Cine Experimental de Madrid, Spain. Survivors (2018 Director and Producer) for which he was nominated for an Emmy. His most recent work is “The New Boat” which he produced. 00:38:34 Mina Chow: I have a question: What do people think about reenactments? Despite how engaging they are… I have a REAL problem with them. 1. The privilege of the expense 2. Less factual storytelling. 00:39:12 IDA: Thanks Mina for your question! For everyone, if you have questions during this session, drop them into chat and we’ll collect them for the Q&A portion of the talk. 00:39:20 Mina Chow: They are EVERYWHERE in the privileged doc world. 00:40:18 Jim Bracher: I don't seem to be able to save the chat. 00:40:37 Heather Andolina: Reacted to "find me online: nonf…" with ❤️ 00:40:42 Heather Andolina: Reacted to "Julie McElmurry bio:…" with ❤️ 00:40:58 Vicki Vasilopoulos: Reacted to "Geoffrey Smith is a …" with 👍🏻 00:41:08 Vicki Vasilopoulos: Reacted to "find me online: nonf…" with ❤️ 00:41:09 Jim Bracher: Reacted to "Geoffrey Smith is a ..." with 👍🏻 00:41:22 Vicki Vasilopoulos: Reacted to "For more IDA worksho…" with 👍 00:41:39 IDA: Hi Jim! We will save chat at the end of the session and post it online in a couple days along with the recording of this session. 00:41:53 Gabriela Trevino: Reacted to "Hi Jim! We will save..." with ❤️ 00:42:25 Allison Argo: This session will be recorded and shared with everyone who signed up? 00:42:46 Jim Bracher: Reacted to "Hi Jim! We will save..." with ❤️ 00:42:50 IDA: Yes, we’ll email everyone who registered for the event with the recording when it’s posted on the IDA Youtube. We also encourage everyone here to sign up for the IDA newsletters if you haven’t already—then you’ll get emails with links to all of our recorded workshops and seminars! https://www.documentary.org/join 00:44:30 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: 📍From Geoffrey: QUEST- a character or group trying ot achieve something they want or feel is important. 00:45:30 Dan Chapman, Culver City, CA: What’s number 4? 00:45:40 Mina Chow: 4 is resolution 00:45:49 Dan Chapman, Culver City, CA: merci 00:45:51 Mina Brooks: What was 3 00:45:53 L.J. Fogel: That’s my favorite movie! 00:45:59 Mina Chow: 3 are obstacles 00:46:15 Lauren David: What is 1 AND 2 00:46:16 Mina Chow: 2 is setting out on the journey 00:46:22 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: "Establish that your character wants something at the start of the film...will they get that?" 00:46:32 Mina Chow: 1 is establishing the want 00:46:32 James Merkel, Belfast Maine: 3. obstacles 00:46:59 Donna Roberts: 3. encountering obstacles 00:47:32 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: "We watch quest films to see how others deal with obstacles in life." 00:50:20 L.J. Fogel: What if the character thinks they want one thing, “I am setting out to do X” but doesn’t admit to herself or the audience what she really wants until later in the movie 00:52:41 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Paraphrase 'Wearing our archetype glasses can help us have a picture on the box of the puzzle inside" 00:53:12 Wonjung Bae: Tyranny of choice, documentary making faces endless choices: swimming and drowning in hundreds of hours of seemingly important but distracting for one film we end up making 00:53:36 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: 📍REBIRTH as an archetype: An event foces a person to change and/or adapt; a process involving confrontation, a journey of catharsis and possibly redemption. 00:54:02 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Earlier, he was talking about the archetype of a QUEST story and now he is talking about REBIRTH as an archetype. 00:54:12 D Munroe: Replying to "📍REBIRTH as an arch…" What were the four points on that 00:54:58 Elizabeth McNamara: Can a documentary series with multiple characters successfully have more than one archetype? 00:55:38 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Name examples of other QUEST films and REBIRTH films. 00:56:16 Donna Roberts: “Sr.” 00:56:32 Mina Brooks: Replying to "📍REBIRTH as an arch..." He went over them so fast I couldn’t write it down. 00:57:17 Allison Argo: Perhaps he could repeat the steps in a Rebirth film? 00:57:18 Lorraine Chittock Tanzania: Blood Diamond is a great quest film, as it’s 3 specific quests. 00:57:35 Sajil Hande: Replying to "📍REBIRTH as an arch..." Guys it’s getting recorded, don’t worry. 00:57:40 Jim Oppenheimer - SF Bay Area: Quest: Burden of Dreams 00:57:54 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Replying to "📍REBIRTH as an arch..." Ask him during the Q&A and he will repeat. 00:57:55 IDA: If you missed something in Geoffrey’s talk, you can check out the recording when we post it in a couple of days, which will also include a transcript of Geoffrey’s talk! 00:58:05 L.J. Fogel: Can you repeat majority of quest is X rebirth it’s X? 00:58:23 IDA: We are also offering live CART closed captioning, if you want to review the text. Click on captions on the bottom of your screen to review 00:58:29 Sini Manner: cheers re recording heads up - defo want to rewatch!! 00:58:37 Gabriella Ortega Ricketts, IDA - she/her: The bulk of quest: overcoming obstacles 00:58:43 Gabriela Trevino: Act of Killing is a great rebirth film. 00:58:49 Gabriella Ortega Ricketts, IDA - she/her: The bulk of rebirth: finding release, catharsis 00:58:59 L.J. Fogel: Thanks Gabriela 00:59:02 M James Sessy Kamara: M J Sessy Kamara from Sierra Leone 01:00:06 Elizabeth McNamara: Quest = Crip Camp 01:00:35 Gabriela Trevino: Reacted to "Quest = Crip Camp" with 👍 01:00:36 Vera Calloway: QUESTIONS: ) Is a Director editing while shooting the story? What room is there for unexpected events? 2) What role would the editor play here? 01:00:46 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Geoffrey has offered for you to chat (for free), contact him via www.storytime.dev 01:00:59 Allan Marks NYC: Can you post Geoffrey’s email? 01:01:25 Gabriela Figueredo: Can you talk about effective archetypes for historical documentaries? 01:01:38 hanna jacobsen: Reacted to "Can you talk about e..." with 👍 01:01:47 hanna jacobsen: Reacted to "Can you talk about e..." with ❤️ 01:01:53 IDA: To send Geoffrey an email, use this link: https://storytime.dev/connect/ 01:02:20 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: (That's my only question for now) 01:02:23 Mariella Bussolati: what if the character who has the quest is not a human but a thing?In my last film is a park! 01:02:36 Gabriela Figueredo: Reacted to "Can you talk about e..." with 👍 01:02:41 hanna jacobsen: Reacted to "what if the characte..." with ❤️ 01:03:05 IDA: Reacted to "what if the characte..." with ❤️ 01:03:10 Boi Beatrice Kenneh: Reacted to "what if the characte…" with 👍 01:03:11 Jane Coombs: Reacted to "If you missed someth…" with 🙌 01:03:11 IDA: Mariella, love that question! 01:03:12 Sini Manner: We're making a doco on brain injury recovery feat numerous subjects and neurological experts.. and currently in that 'tyranny of choice' stage, re overall style to basic stuff like whether we're going have a narrator.. gahhh. 01:03:38 Wonjung Bae: Hi Geoffrey, among 7, which could be possibly the most fitting type when the story has the main character whose reliability itself is on question? 01:03:46 Sini Manner: ..making with a man who is a brain injury survivor.. sitting with me watching this.. 01:04:12 Jim Bracher: Reacted to "what if the characte..." with ❤️ 01:04:53 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Please feel free to ask Geoffrey your questions during the upcoming Q&A. All of us will learn from your question and from his answer, so be generous and ask! 01:05:53 Sini Manner: question - could an illness or disability be considered a 'monster'? 01:06:38 Annette Frahm: What is the difference between a quest and a hero’s journey? 01:07:49 Jude Ray: If possible here: can you address how to maintain a clear focus and storyline with a film that essentially grows into an ensemble piece—in which the main character ends up building community or joining with others who become key players in his story (and they his) to find redemption (for self and others)? This question really is directed toward the challenges of writing proposals for this kind of more complex film to keep the pitch from getting too diffuse, but also applies to planning/knowing what to shoot! 01:08:07 Joe Shapiro: Reacted to "What is the differe…" with 👍 01:08:22 Vicki Vasilopoulos: Reacted to "If possible here: ca..." with 👍 01:08:34 Shmuel Hoffman Producer|KickAssDocDP: Reacted to "If possible here: ca..." with 👍 01:08:47 hanna jacobsen: Reacted to "If possible here: ca..." with ❤️ 01:09:03 Jim Jackson: Archetypes versus Formulaic Storytelling Reality Check: The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. By Reeves Wiedeman Feb. 1, 2023 (This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.) https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab 01:10:14 Vera Calloway: @Wonjung...this is where I'm at with my subjects...the journey leads to unexpected places...but reliability is true for them, so I hope not to judge because perhaps I'm the unreliable one who should trust the flow..NOT SURE HERE! 01:10:36 Meetu Chilana: What about docuseries? Can you have multiple archetypes? 01:10:41 Jules Robertson: Your answering a question I had, what if you start with a quest archetype film and it turns into a Rebirth story. 01:11:20 IDA: Thanks, Jim! Would you like to turn that into a question? (that could be very interesting!) 01:11:35 IDA: For everyone else, keep the questions coming! We’re compiling them for the audience Q&A session portion shortly 01:11:41 Mina Chow: Oo— that happened to me! LOL 01:12:08 IDA: Yep, totally Julie! The breakout rooms at the end, when folks can continue to discuss, will be self-selecting. 01:12:34 Vera Calloway: Reacted to "If possible here: ca..." with 👍 01:13:15 Mina Chow: Yes, but the danger about the therapy as the director is NOT making the film YOUR (the director’s) catharsis. The audience is STILL the target center 01:13:28 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Cool.Thank you. 01:14:44 Lauren David: Can you recommend various myths that go along with the archetypes you mentioned. 01:14:51 Destiny Arturet: Reacted to "Can you recommend va..." with 👍 01:15:27 Sini Manner: For Q&A please: could disability or illness be considered a 'monster'?? producing a film currently on brain injury recovery,with a man who survived a traumatic brain injury - many subjects to interview and neurology experts to speak to trauma... monster or quest or rebirth.. hmmmm??? Tyranny of choice re style, even deciding whether to use an independent narrator..! 01:15:35 Gabriela Figueredo: Can you talk about effective archetypes for historical documentaries? 01:15:39 L.J. Fogel: What if the director/main character thinks she’s on a quest, but only later admits it’s a rebirth journey? Like it’s a reveal. Is there an example of this the group can think of? 01:16:06 Vera Calloway: Are there any pitfalls that 1st time feature documentarians should watch out for in non-linear stories in need of an archetype? 01:16:14 Mina Chow: @ Sini: YES illness disability are your obstacles 01:16:48 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: I want to hear everyone's questions! 01:17:05 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: The raised hand function is found under "reactions" 01:17:06 Destiny Arturet: Question: How do you create an engaging story when the quest is over and the footage isn’t capturing the quest at the time it’s happening? 01:17:07 Geoffrey Smith www.storytime.dev: Geoffrey Smith - Geoffrey@storytime.dev 01:17:47 Laj Pershad Waghray: What are some tools we can use to ‘storyboard/map out the ‘story”? 01:18:07 Teenaa Kaur: Please suggest should I use a voice over to my personal documentary film…. I am a breast cancer survivor on the quest of finding a life partner and also want to know if breast cancer is a stigma in India…and if it affects my chances of finding my life partner.. IS VO needed for the exposition 01:18:36 Jhizet Panosian: Replying to "What if the director..." @LJ Fogel - The Stories We Tell comes to mind 01:18:44 Vera Calloway: @Sini For many in the disability community, the disability/illness is a SuperPower!! The audience assumes it's a Monster! 01:19:20 Gabriela Trevino: Reacted to "What are some tools ..." with 👍 01:19:29 Mina Chow: @sini YES what Vera typed can be a self-actualization 01:19:34 L.J. Fogel: Replying to "What if the director…" Thank you 01:19:40 Mina Brooks: What happens when your doc becomes Meta and its a Quest and Rebirth. 01:20:05 L.J. Fogel: That’s where I am Mina! 01:20:17 Vicki Vasilopoulos: Reacted to "What if the director..." with ❤️ 01:20:37 Jim Oppenheimer - SF Bay Area: How does one deal with a stories that are a hybrid of archetypes. I am thinking of the recent documentary Wildcat which ultimately is a Rebirth story (overcoming PTSD) that involves a Quest (getting a Lancelot to survive on its own) at its core? 01:20:41 Donna Roberts: Yes, me, too…Quest & Rebirth! 01:20:55 Jhizet Panosian: Reacted to "What happens when yo..." with 🧡 01:21:09 Sini Manner: cheers - more of a technical question for this process though rather than philosophical though. 01:21:15 Mina Chow: I’m an architect as well— so I’ve dealt with that issue of “thing” vs “person.” It’s HARD to empathize with an inanimate object 01:22:35 Mina Chow: I’ve done it where I connected to a wide audience about a building, but I stepped in to develop character to do that. 01:22:53 Jim Jackson: My Octopus Teacher both filmmaker and subject are on “quests” (of sorts); the quest of octopus is being “interpreted,” hence the need for the filmmaker 01:23:45 Vera Calloway: @Mina Chow...thank you for your insight here...very helpful! 01:23:48 Forrest Canaday - Miami: Thanks for asking that question! 01:23:57 Donna Roberts: Gabriela F., Check my film www.yemanjathefilm.com 01:24:16 Marzia Nomi: Thanks 01:24:18 Mina Chow: @Vera, I’ve been there! I’m a professor too— so I teach 200 students. 01:24:28 hanna jacobsen: Reacted to "Gabriela F., Check m..." with ❤️ 01:26:47 Allison Argo: Was anyone able to write down the four steps in the Rebirth film? 01:27:03 Sini Manner: q&a - speaking of notes on walls.. we were introduced to Miro the virtual whiteboard to help map out storyline.. 01:27:19 Gabriela Figueredo: Reacted to "Gabriela F., Check m..." with ❤️ 01:27:22 L.J. Fogel: I like to use index card! 01:27:32 Pamela Torrance: Here is a website that also talks about the rebirth type, but they have 5 steps: https://thewritepractice.com/rebirth-plot/ 01:27:34 L.J. Fogel: I’ll old fashioned. Tape em to the wall 01:27:38 Mina Chow: @sini: I was going to ask him to repeat them since I’m next 01:27:54 Laj Pershad Waghray: Thank you! 01:28:03 Mina Brooks: I just realized theres another Mina ! Lol I thought that was me 01:28:08 M James Sessy Kamara: What are some of the best ways to achieve an investigative filming especially when filming a sexual harassment film where the main character is aware of the filming but the culprit isn’t aware? 01:28:38 Mina Chow: @Mina: LOL! HI! 01:29:03 Mina Chow: This was from the link Pamela sent: 1 A young hero or heroine falls under the shadow of the dark power. 2 For a while, all may seem to go reasonably well. The threat may even seem to have receded. 3 Eventually the threat returns in full force, until the hero/heroine is seen imprisoned in the state of living death. 4 This continues for a long time, when it seems like the dark power has completely triumphed. 5 But finally comes the miraculous redemption, either by the hero (if the imprisoned figure is the heroine), or by a young woman or child (if the imprisoned figure is the hero). 01:30:09 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: We love an active chat box! 01:30:49 Sajil Hande: Best way to share notes 01:31:11 Elizabeth McNamara: Question: if you are fortunate enough to get a multi-part series for your documentary story, does that mean you could support more than one archetype? 01:31:49 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: REBIRTH stories: An event happens to someone, they confront that event (have to), out of that confronatation, there's a point where they have to get back to finding meaning and purpose again. That meaning-finding is catharsis. 01:31:49 Daniel Vital: Q. In regards to narrative intersections between the main topic of the film, and other topics that might be added by characters storylines, do you feel it is always best to focus on one narrative or there might be a benefit of adding more? Is there a general rule or it depends on the details of each project? Thanks. 01:31:56 RYAN QUON: Thank you! Have a great day everyone, 01:32:00 Mina Chow: THANK YOU Geoffrey! 01:32:17 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: (sometimes redemption or something at the end that changes them or gives them insight.) 01:32:35 Mina Brooks: My question was from earlier - what happens when your doc is META and Rebirth. 01:32:49 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: 📍You can continue the conversation with Geoffrey Smith www.storytime.dev 01:32:50 Mina Brooks: Quest and rebirth * 01:33:23 Donna Roberts: what were her words? 01:34:43 Vera Calloway: Thank you for mentioning Authenticity, Geoffrey!! 01:35:00 Mina Chow: Rebirth as bullet points: 01:35:54 Mina Chow: 1 Event Happens 2 Character must confront the event 3 Out of this, the character must find meaning and/or purpose 4 intimate catharsis 01:36:34 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Reacted to "1 Event Happens 2 ..." with ❤️ 01:37:19 Elizabeth McNamara: Can you have an “A story archetype” and a “B story archetype"? 01:38:07 Meetu Chilana: When choosing multiple characters for an issue based doc is it better to have characters that have different experiences or similar, for the sake of the audience following teh archetypical journey? 01:38:45 Mina Brooks: Reacted to "1 Event Happens 2 ..." with ❤️ 01:38:49 L.J. Fogel: I love this question! 01:38:58 L.J. Fogel: Creating community 01:40:43 Elizabeth McNamara: There is a lot of discussion about providing “balance” in storytelling of complex/controversial topics so I am wondering if this results in less audience emotional connection because they are not rooting for everyone? 01:40:48 Anita Lewton-Moukkes: the British film Bunch of Amateurs' (2022) is a combined character film; its both hilarious and poignant as its shot over the pandemic in Bradford N England... it def works ...Kim Hopkins- Dir.) 01:41:44 Eva Midgley: Do I understand correctly that in a Rebirth story, the character isn’t necessarily aware that they are seeking a way to heal themselves.?Like the vet, who in his own mind seems to be on a quest to save an ocelot. 01:42:44 IDA: +1 Anita, that’s a real ensemble crowd pleaser! 01:42:47 Mina Chow: @Eva: Yes that’s always been my understanding of rebirth. Unawareness. 01:42:52 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: relationship-building 01:43:10 Sajil Hande: Take your phone and start shooting 01:43:13 Mina Brooks: When would someone reveal the unawares. 01:43:16 Sajil Hande: If you don’t have money 01:43:33 Sajil Hande: That will help you get funds 01:43:37 Elizabeth McNamara: The VOW 01:44:00 Mina Chow: @Mina B: from what I know, it depends on the story structure. 01:44:18 Elizabeth McNamara: Directors featured perpetrators in season 2 and a lot of audience got really mad 01:44:25 Mina Brooks: I’m asking because after I filmed my doc I realized it was a rebirth 6 years later and am now finally editing. 01:44:27 Elizabeth McNamara: No voice of god 01:45:22 Elizabeth McNamara: Definitely a topic for intersection of journalism and documentary 01:45:48 Sini Manner: @Gabriella -- any chance of reading our question above.. starting 'For Q&A'?? 01:46:25 IDA: We are wrapping up the Q&A portion, but you can email Geoffrey with any outstanding questions! geoffrey@storytime.dev 01:47:53 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Please reach out to Arthur at the Freetown Media Centre in Sierra Leone, to me via nonfictional.org (I produce!) and Geoffrey for a free 20 minute chat at www.storytime.dev 01:48:35 Mina Chow: 😍 thank u IDA and Geoffrey! 01:49:18 Daniel Vital: Thank you Geoffrey and all IDA folks, it was an interesting conversation to follow. Ciao ✌️ 01:49:40 Nick Aldridge: Thank you this has been brilliant 01:49:41 Sergio Rapu: Will this be recorded and sent out? 01:49:43 Sini Manner: thanks so much Geoffrey & Gabriella!!! 01:50:16 Mina Chow: I’m a known on-camera design “expert” who had to PIVOT to being the “character” to tell the story. 01:50:16 Benjamin Cran: Thank you ! 01:50:24 Geoffrey Smith www.storytime.dev: Geoffrey - www,storytime.dev 01:50:37 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Geoffrey Smith! Thank you! 01:50:53 Vera Calloway: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL SPEAKERS AND QUESTIONERS!! 01:50:53 Boi Beatrice Kenneh: Thank you IDA 🙏🏾 01:51:00 Mina Brooks: Thank you IDA! 01:51:02 Mina Brooks: Hey everyone, I’m based in LA and NYC and would love to connect with those who are comfortable. IG, FB and LinkedIn are below. https://www.instagram.com/wilhelminaislove/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mina-simone/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011362915636 01:51:10 Adrianna Martin: Thank you! 01:51:15 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: This is the end of our time together here and now we will go into breakouts 01:51:29 Jules Robertson: Thank you!!! 01:51:34 Fanny Hubart Salmon: Are there different topics assigned to the breakout rooms? 01:51:47 Julie McElmurry, Documentary Producer: Yes! Thank you to ASL Interpreters! 01:52:04 Laj Pershad Waghray: How do I find a room? 01:52:07 Sini Manner: Will all thed 01:52:09 Laj Pershad Waghray: Thank you!!