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Originally Posted by GeoffC
So would you agree the culprit is the format ?
I don't mind if there is a
"Meanwhile in Outer Space, etc etc ... "
It's when you get a conversation between a group of people, that then becomes a totally different one elsewhere in time and space .... without any apparent warning....
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Dialog can be a problem even if the book isn't non-limear in structure. Go ahead, keep track of who is talking...
But the media can make a difference, and so can cultural norms. I read a piece a while back about the experience of a TV outfit in South Africa crafting content intended for the native audience, who discovered that various things weren't universal. For instance, if a character left a place via a door, they couldn't just jump cut to the same character coming into another place through a different door. They had to explicitly depict the intervening travel, or the audience didn't get it. Western audiences, raised in film and TV, are familiar with the conventions and automatically interpolate stuff not explicitly depicted because they know it had to happen. The native SA audience was a different matter.
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Dennis