I am a TED Head. I love the lectures at the TED Conference. What began as a small conference in California has grown to a global community, many million strong, focused on exchanging and spreading ideas. If you have seen some of their lectures, please do so, it’s an eye opening experience.
Anyone who is interested in communicating and getting people to pay attention to ways to build suspense in your audience should watch JJ Abrams’ (creator of Lost, the New Star Trek, Alias and so on) great lecture The Mystery Box at the 2007 TED conference. For writers, film makers, designers or anyone who has to give a presentation his ideas on how to get the audience to want more is defiantly worth checking out.
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I haven’t really watched any of JJ’s shows on TV but he is really interesting to listen to. Funny too.
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JJ Abrams is a great speaker. His films and TV shows usually start out great, with fantastic and mysterious premise. But I find he often goes off the rails a bit in the third act. But still worthwhile stuff.