Watch & Listen
Stories on screen, conversations in audio and the craft behind both.
Watch
Shelley's layered narration poses a screenwriting problem that no creature design can solve on its own.
An episodic family novel asks an adaptation to choose what kind of change the audience should feel.
Listen
An audiobook performance can distinguish the person living an event from the narrator looking back on it.
Wells's storytelling frame makes the novella especially interesting to hear as well as read.
Documentaries
A photograph is a primary source with edges: what lies outside the frame still matters.
Archives become arguments when a filmmaker decides what comes before and after each picture.