Puppet Show as exposition on Dark Crystal. Genius, genius!

Take a cure from game design. Make a thematic trailer or tutorial or the Jurassic park ride with the animation to set the scene.

Doing expositional in a fanciful way, this is the key.

Drama stops for exposition

“Can input this down in a way that’s the character asking or question, or that attests to what the character wants”

Never ever have characters explain exposition to one another.

Watch Coco,

This movie explains a foreign culture, rituals, where they go wrong, what happens when they go wrong.

“The one person (who can give him the reverse for the curse) won’t or can’t” it’s perfect.

If exposition is shared by

WANTS AND NEEDS OF THE SCENE

Print: DON’T STOP THE FUN TRAIN (John Waters)

Some great films have shotty exposition. not just shotty, but shitty,

Actions scenes are what happens when words will no longer suffice.

Romantic scenes are what happens when words no longer to suffice.

These types of scenes are the “physicalization of the emotions and desires of the scene.”

The 3 Questions for Wordless Scenes:

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Where does the character start

What are they trying to get to?

What are the obstacles in the way of that?”

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TAKEAWAY PRO TIP: Produce a map: here’s where the character is, here’s where they’re going, here’s what’s stopping them.