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Looking at the raw transcript from the deposition can be horribly misleading at best. The transcript doesn't capture tone, accents, stress level, pacing, volume
by caseysoftware 11y ago
Looking at the raw transcript from the deposition can be horribly misleading at best. The transcript doesn't capture tone, accents, stress level, pacing, volume, and a variety of other things. A dramatization allows you to color the scene in a variety of ways that tell the story in radically different ways.
Think of saying "wow, that's a great idea!" to your best friend that has a great idea. Then think of saying that to the office idiot who just suggested they can rebuild your entire system in a weekend.
Disclosure: I work in speech recognition systems.
- dangerlibrary 11y agoWell, yeah. But that's also how screenplays work. "Interpreting tone, accents, stress level, pacing, volume, and a variety of other things from a transcript" is a pretty good description of a director's job. This project just uses the verbatim transcript as a screenplay, and runs with it. They are very honest about the fact that they are aiming for something between faithful re-creation and entertainment.
- weaksauce 11y agoThe video of this deposition is in the comments above and is pretty spot on to the reenactment.
- dvirsky 11y agoThere's a video of the actual deposition as well. Sounds pretty similar.