How to tell compelling stories out of video interv
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Paper-editing
    • Documentary Production Overview
    • Key concepts in documentary theory
    • Why paper-editing?
    • Paper-editing overview
  • Story concepts
    • Paper-editing and story concepts
    • Terminology
    • levels of conflict
    • The Gap
    • The Quest
    • Three act structure
    • Exposition
    • ladder of abstraction in paper-editing
    • Annotated bibliography
  • Two Column Script
    • Two Column Script
  • Digital Paper-editing
    • autoEdit 2 digital paper-editing software
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Exposition

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As mentioned in .

Exposition is the information that grounds you in a story: who, what, where, when, and why" is about "giving away what the audience needs, when the audience needs it.

It's important to be clear on where to use exposition in the story crafting process. It is best to first identify the story and then use exposition to refine the presentation.

the terminology section
Exposition