Category: Embodied Storycraft
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Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting
The first thing I noticed about Wine Vetaka was her eyebrows. They expressed so much sadness and earnestness in the trailer for Enemies with Benefits in scenes that were ostensibly supposed to establish her as this intimidating and strict character. The way she lifted them while expressing pain, or confusion or just clarifying a procedure,…
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Manut-jai and the Irreplaceability of a Person
What is Manut-jai? In considering what makes a character feel like an individual, I have coined a few Thai-based concepts. First, the heart of a character doesn’t quite encapsulate the specificity that I seek to track and recognize. Instead, I have taken the word for human in Thai, manut and the word for a core…
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More Full of People
A Window into the Vastness I keep falling in love with characters. I have been doing this for years. I still do it every time a story settles into me. And I’ve gradually become fascinated by what that means. Honestly, I’ve been realizing that I deeply enjoy getting to know them. And I love finding…
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Why Embodied Storycraft?
Beginning with Coherence Why is it called Embodied Storycraft? Because screenbased stories are told through bodies. Whether animated or acted, every glance, gesture, silence, posture, movement and expression becomes part of how a character’s felt experience is communicated. Televisual stories, moreover, are crafted. They are extraordinarily collaborative human expressions of creativity, built by hundreds of…