Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The entertainment is in the presentation.
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.
I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.