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Working: Harnessing All Five Senses

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler expand their world by exploring the senses we often neglect. Isaac recounts a method acting technique of attaching a memory or feeling to a specific scent, or color from our past. June remembers the sight of a dress made by a friend bringing back the memory of childhood Christmas chocolates. They also dive into other sensory-building exercises and take a walk through the streets of Edinburgh. Do you have a question about creativity? Reach out at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com.    Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advicey focus puller to Working Director of Photography.

0:11.5

I am your host, Isaac Butler.

0:13.7

And I'm your other host, June Thomas.

0:16.4

Isaac, what have you got for us this time?

0:18.9

Hey June, it's always lovely to hear your voice.

0:21.0

This time, I have been thinking a lot about the five senses and thinking

0:25.8

especially about how we often ignore all of them except for sight when we think about our

0:31.5

experience of the world and creative work and maybe we could open up some new creative doors by taking a gander sight metaphor again at the other four.

0:41.0

Well, Kalemee fascinated and in case you're wondering Isaac the color of

0:45.9

fascination is the sort of dusky rose with hunter orange highlights I'm curious what got

0:52.2

you onto this subject. So we recently had an episode where I

0:56.8

interviewed a film sound designer named Johnny Byrne and he walked me

1:01.5

through this really intense detailed process for the film The Zone of Interest

1:06.5

and that just got me thinking a lot about the other senses and in a way this connects to my last book

1:12.0

the method how the 20th century learned to act because a And in a way this connects to my last book, The Method,

1:12.8

how the 20th century learned to act,

1:14.6

because a lot of the acting training in that book

1:17.1

is actually about training the senses other than sight.

1:21.8

Part of that is just the assumption that you know we all use

1:24.5

site all the time we're thinking about site our language includes a lot of site

1:29.0

metaphors you know but actually there are other senses that connect more directly to emotions than sight does.

1:37.6

What do you mean?

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