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#397: How to Move Your Audiences Using the Ken Burns Storytelling Formula

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The Ken Burns Effect in Editing

"The Ken Burns for half" is a two-hour PBS documentary about the history of American storytelling. The show's editing director, David Bianculli, explains how to bring human emotion to life through sound and music. "You want to engage them from the very first frame," he says on avoiding distraction in filmmaking.

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