wh5 vs whh

Who?

Where there’s smoke…
Bob: There is corruption, I’m sure.
Carl: Is there a provable link? Can you follow the money?
Bob: We’ll find it. Asking all the political questions: what, when, where, who and how.
Carl: Not the narrative question: why? 
Bob: Well, how is like why, isn’t it.
Carl: Not even close. "How" is modus operandi. "Why" is the reason explaining an event.
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Voice-over
Questions reveal facts and drive a narrative. The basic ones are wh5 (what, when, where, who, why). Perhaps “how” should be spelt whow.

Movies and Critiques

Teachers discuss preparations for a visit to an exhibition…

Aaron: Do you give questions to your students beforehand?

Vinetra: No, just tell them to go look.

Aaron: They have to write a report?

Vinetra: Sure. Two pages.

Aaron: No guidance?

Vinetra: Well, maybe a couple of pointers.

Aaron: May I see the printout? (Reads guidelines handout)) What’s this? Spaces, colors, chronology, labeling, lighting, messages, impressions… There are FORTY questions directing their critique.

Vinetra: Well, maybe a little guidance helps.

Aaron: How disingenuous! I only gave my students four question to answer.

Vinetra: Yours are only shooting a movie. Mine are writing a critique.

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Voice-over

Informative answers are triggered by clever questions. Is an informative movie so much easier to make than an academic essay as Vinetra suggests? 
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Man in the Moon

It’s moon cake time in China and Man in the Moon is challenged:

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Where’ve you been?

MM: What do you mean? “Where’ve I been?”

Well, you haven’t posted anything for a month.

MM: Who’d notice?

Some of us thought you’d DIED!

MM: Things were difficult. For one thing, China.

China?

MM: The site is blocked in China. I couldn’t log on.

But you weren’t in China for a MONTH! You exaggerate.

MM: No, but I was in other places that made me feel like I was.

That difficult?

MM: That difficult.

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Voice-over

A conversation with a LOT of questions. Even questions posing as responses to questions:

Where’ve you been?
What do you mean? “Where’ve I been?”

And a quaint ending:

That difficult?
That difficult.

The falling intonation on the imitated utterance turns the question into a statement.

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