#397: How to Move Your Audiences Using the Ken Burns Storytelling Formula
Business of Story
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Did You Have Any Concerns About Directing Your Own Films?
I imagine when you took on this project, you weren't thinking how cathartic it was going to be. Was there ever a concern from a directorial standpoint that you were getting too deep into it? The answer is categorically no because one of the Ken Burns formula is that the feelings and the views of the director and any participant who's making the film cannot be included in the story. So we never ever made it about us. It's just that it profoundly affected us,. We saw the potential which allowed us to focus even more on telling these stories as accurately as possible.
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