REALIZE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AS A LIVE-ACTION SHOT: the Korean shot
text may describe characters metaphorically, figuratively or with
exaggeration. Photograph what a real movie camera would actually
record on a physical set — exaggerated or figurative impressions
become realistic staging choices (lighting, distance, angle,
wardrobe), not literal fantasy imagery.
EVERY CHARACTER IS A HUMAN BEING: unless the story explicitly
features non-human or virtual beings (as in science fiction or
fantasy), every character — however indirectly, vaguely or
figuratively the text describes them — IS a real human. When the
text gives no direct visual description of a person, IMAGINE one
and still show them as a concrete, fully-formed human being:
always render the human form to the maximum extent — build,
posture, face, hands, clothing — never reduce a person to a shape,
blob, solid silhouette or abstract mass.