{"id":13977,"date":"2025-01-08T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:25:49","slug":"what-are-we-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/2025\/what-are-we-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Looking For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>by Mikael Opstrup<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fiction film we write the characters, in documentary film we read them. Or rather: We read people and create characters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What people do during the years we film them is totally beyond our control and yet we are supposed to create a coherent and engaging story. Based on the unpredictable chaos aka Life. <em>What characteristics are we looking for<\/em>? therefore seems to be a key question when we decide who to film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transforming the people we film into the characters that the audience meet on the screen is solely based on our artistic decisions.<br \/>\nA second important question therefore seems to be:\u00a0<em>What are our artistic options when we transform events into stories<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on his book \u00a0\u2018THE UNCERTAINTY \u2013 A book about developing Character driven Documentary\u2019 and through visual examples, Mikael Opstrup will share insights drawn from years of reflecting on the art of crafting protagonists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>__<br \/>\nCV:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&gt;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/2025\/mikael-opstrup\/\">Mikael Opstrup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mikael Opstrup In fiction film we write the characters, in documentary film we read them. Or rather: We read people and create characters. What people do during the years we film them is totally beyond our control and yet we are supposed to create a coherent and engaging story. Based on the unpredictable chaos &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,638,593947],"tags":[593949,593963],"class_list":["post-13977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-referate","category-zdok-25","tag-praxis","tag-referat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15455,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/15455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}