Fritz,
You chose a profound song. I'd like to relate a story I heard in film school, in regards to the art of story telling in film. I hope you will find it interesting, and please don't take it as patronising.
This story was told to me without reference, so its accuracy is not confirmed, but the lesson is valid regardless.
As I heard it it went like this...
The great Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein , like all other Russians came under the Soviet regime following 1917, and was "encouraged" to participate in the welfare of the state by teaching at a Soviet Film School. Like everybody else, he had to make a living, so he did.
In one of his beginner classes , he gave an assignment for the class to shoot their first short film. The students got a camera and a roll of film and off they went. They returned their film, had it processed (no you upstart whippersnappers - it was not immediately viewable - it had to be chemically processed - and it was black and white!) and returned to the class to screen their unedited work (rushes) prior to assembling the films in editing.
Eisenstein asked the students to first show the class their very finest and best shots.
The students proudly did so.
Eisenstein complemented them on the quality of the work, then proceeded to cut the best shots from the rushes of each and every student, threw them in the waste, and then said, "Now, edit your story".
Sergei Eisenstein, filmmaker and teacher
Sincerely,
Kopfdorfer
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