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Now that's an unusual technique
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:51 pmOkay, kind of an odd reflection here. See, in the rakugo series last week, there was a running thread about making soba - buckwheat noodles. I think it was a metaphor for the activity on the show, but when I stop and think about it, they never said that. I've built links due to proximity, but those are just in my head.
In other words, while they did interleave the rest of the show with scenes of the heroine learning how to make soba from her mom, and her mom giving out various observations and comments about the fine art of making soba, they never really came out and said there were any relationships to the ongoing activity of the show (which last week focused on the students putting together a rakugo show - which was Saturday's big scene, with a smash ending). It's just . . . well, when mom tells Kiyomi that she needs to put her back into it, and keep working it, and she hesitantly pushes on the dough with a voiced "don," somehow that seems to tie into the continuing little pushes and shoves at the teacher who has insisted he was no longer teaching or performing.
Interesting technique. Show the audience two things in proximity, and let them build their own web of connections. Frankly, I think it resulted in me making somewhat stronger connections than a more explicit "telling" approach might have.
In other words, while they did interleave the rest of the show with scenes of the heroine learning how to make soba from her mom, and her mom giving out various observations and comments about the fine art of making soba, they never really came out and said there were any relationships to the ongoing activity of the show (which last week focused on the students putting together a rakugo show - which was Saturday's big scene, with a smash ending). It's just . . . well, when mom tells Kiyomi that she needs to put her back into it, and keep working it, and she hesitantly pushes on the dough with a voiced "don," somehow that seems to tie into the continuing little pushes and shoves at the teacher who has insisted he was no longer teaching or performing.
Interesting technique. Show the audience two things in proximity, and let them build their own web of connections. Frankly, I think it resulted in me making somewhat stronger connections than a more explicit "telling" approach might have.
