Film Courage: We have this amazing game called The Story Engine and that’s going to help us generate an idea. We’re going to use your tools to develop the idea into a movie. We’ll start by drawing a card, there are different cards. The first one is the agent card, presumably that’s the protagonist
Jeff Kitchen, Dramatist / Author / Founder / Consultant: [Reading a card from The Story Engine] We have an automaton, a machine, a puppet and a servant. Interesting.
Film Courage: Of the four, which one do you think would be the best to build a story around?
Jeff: An automaton is certainly timely and it is a machine and it can be a puppet in certain ways and it can be certainly a servant, so it encompasses a lot of those elements and yet is still open-ended and very much of today.
Film Courage: Which of the four do you think would actually make the least interesting story?
Jeff: I don’t know because there’s really infinite variables in each one so whereas one might think a puppet or a servant would naturally appear less interesting, there’s so much potential nuance and a servant often has much more capability and sort of behind-the-scenes facility and power then they might appear at first. Puppets have been used in varying ways where they can be brilliant and…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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