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+title: "Off-Screen Stories"
+permalink: "/film/off-screen-stories"
+description: "Some films and TV shows are written to take place in your head."
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+
+I recently watched the first season of an extremely popular HBO show, but I didn’t enjoy it very much. It's not the first time this has happened. This made me notice a dimension of visual storytelling that I’ve never considered before.
+
+I think we can put stories into two buckets:
+
+1. Stories that take place mostly on-screen.
+2. Stories told mostly in dialogue, so they mainly take place in the audience's head.
+
+It’s probably more of a gradient if we really think about it, but hear me out.
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+## Category 1 - WYSIWYG
+
+**... or What You See Is What You Get.**
+
+In some series and films, most or all of the story takes place visually.
+
+On the most extreme end of the spectrum in this category are silent films and productions with minimal dialogue.
+
+- *The Artist*
+- *Drive*
+
+Movies and series filmed as visual spectacles, VFX-heavy action movies, ones with cinematography, production design, costumes as their primary appeal, can also be bucketed into this category.
+ 
+- *Annihilation* 
+- *Barbie* 
+- *Ripley* 
+- *Cruella* 
+- *1917*
+
+I think a greater proportion of movies fit into this category than TV series do, due to their limited runtime. Of course, there are exceptions.
+
+These stories generally all take place "in the now" and don't depict characters talking about faraway lands or reminiscing about other time periods.
+
+## Category 2 - Off-Screen Stories
+
+**... or "tell, don't show".**
+
+Consider *The Wire*, season 1 of *Game of Thrones*, and earlier seasons of *The Expanse*. Huge proportions of their runtimes are spent in shot/reverse shot conversations. Such shows are often known for rich world building that may not necessarily be seen by the audience.
+
+Some drama films benefit from information strategically revealed via dialogue. Think of *Marriage Story*, or courtroom dramas such as *Anatomy of a Fall*.
+
+Movies based on plays, such as *Rope*, understandably leave more to the imagination due to the limitations of their source medium.
+
+Bottle movies are the on the extreme end of the spectrum. 
+
+- *Twelve Angry Men*
+- *The Man From Earth*
+- *The Guilty*
+- *Locke* 
+- *Buried* 
+- *Reservoir Dogs*
+
+These movies wouldn't be what they are without their almost completely verbal storytelling.
+
+## Audience Appeal
+
+I think these two types of visual media best fit two types of viewing styles:
+
+1. One audience demographic prefers to "watch things unfold" on screen (Category 1).
+2. Another type of audience prefers to get lost in fictional settings and "live" with characters for drawn out runtimes (Category 2).
+
+I lean towards the first kind.
+
+The show that I didn't like much, which inspired this post? Game of Thrones. I felt the same way about The Wire season 1. I appreciate both shows for what they are and the fan following they managed to gain. They're just not my type.