Karl Schroeder

Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.

Canadian Author

Mukesh Rishi

When I agreed to play Ravana, I only had one condition that I get to modify the dialogues. One has to maintain the purity of the text, but the dramatization and the emotion behind it can be toyed with.

Indian Actor

Norah Jones

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

American Musician

Simon Beaufoy

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

British Writer

Steven Spielberg

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

American Director

Understand that dramatization allows for creative changes to make a story work on stage or screen.

Artistic License

Consider cultural context as dramatizations might adapt content to resonate with different audiences.

Cultural Adaptation

Remember 'dramatization' can refer to various forms – plays, films, television shows, and more.

Multiple Formats

Be critical of dramatizations that exaggerate; they might mislead or distort reality.

Exaggeration Awareness

Identify when 'dramatization' is used to grab attention or provoke a reaction, not just to inform.

Recognize Sensationalism

When watching dramatization, think critically about how it might be overstating the truth.

Critical Viewing

 In case you're not clear, this is a dramatization. And in science, we try and remove our bias, right, by running double-blinded experiments or being statistically agnostic as to what our results will be. But bias creeps in more insidiously in what we choose to study and how we choose to study it.

Dramatization