Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers: The future of storytelling
ションダ・ライムズ&シンディ・スタイヴァーズ: ストーリーテリングの未来
With the runaway success of shows like Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes has become one of Hollywood’s most powerful icons. Full bioCyndi Stivers - Encourager-in-chief, TED Residency
Cyndi Stivers curates special events for TED and often serves as a board member, adviser, business strategist and startup coach. Full bio
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ストーリーテリングの未来ですが
going to change about storytelling.
決して変わらないものを考えましょう
What's never going to change.
変わらないものですね
are never going to change,
良い物語は変わりません
and exchange their stories
物語を語り合ったり—
that feel universal,
話したいと感じたりする欲求や
a compelling need to watch stories,
共有したりしたいと
that tell each one of us
思えるような事柄を
are never going to change.
変わらないでしょう
is never going to change.
変わらないと思います
for this conversation,
この対談に先駆けて
元トップですね
on "Grey's Anatomy" --
手がけた当時の―
this indelible memory she had
忘れられない思い出があるそうで
教えてくれました
with any of the executives,
to read for your scripts,
台本を読ませたそうですね
was the full range of humanity,
一切しなかったために
to retraining the studio executives,
再教育しただけでなく
あなたは同時に―
of the American TV audience.
再教育したと感じているそうです
not yet realize that it needs?
まだ気づいていないことは何でしょう?
we're anywhere near there yet.
まだその段階ですらないかと
like the real world in actuality.
かけ離れていますから
a bunch of actors
trying to make a point,
to do anything special.
思ったわけでもありません
that that was new, different or weird.
変だとは思いもしませんでした
because I thought they were interesting
面白い役者だったからです
was completely surprising to everybody --
まったくの驚きだったなんて—
I want to see play these parts.
この役を演じてほしい
they look like if they read.
that happens is
through another lens,
normally in charge of things,
決定権を持たない人物の場合
this big machine that you run,
この大きな組織を動かしています
last year when she gave her talk --
昨年トークをされた通り―
is going to happen as we go on?
思われますか?
involved in producing these shows.
組まれていますね
have gone and gotten greatly democratized,
大きく民主化された一方で
who rent the audience to advertisers
広告主に視聴者を提供して
now that anyone can be a storyteller?
ビジネスモデルの変化はいかがですか?
that's happening is amazing.
目を見張るものがあります
パニックが手に取るように分かるということ
sort of an equalizer happening,
起きているということ―
can make something, is wonderful.
素晴らしいことです
that you can't find the good work now.
少し恐ろしくもあります
417 dramas on television right now
because everybody can make something.
ひどい作品が多くあります
that many good painters.
the good shows,
見つけることは
one tiny show over here on AMC
短い番組がひとつあったとして
becomes much harder.
かなり難しくなります
the great webisode and who made this,
制作者を見つけるのは―
about the poor critics
watching everything.
ならないんですから
are getting more and more vast,
for everybody in the audience
良い番組構成は
winnowed down to just who you are,
選択肢を狭められますが
you can watch, television shows on --
テレビ番組全般のことですが―
wider and wider and wider.
なっているようです
it'll collapse a little bit
will be network television.
分かりません
分かりませんから
a lot of money around right now.
巨額の資金を投入していますね
something exciting about it.
there's something exciting about it.
わくわくするものがあります
there's something exciting about it.
わくわくするものがあります
with characters from all over the world
魅力的な世界各地の登場人物が出てきて
for everybody at the same time
that television can now take on
表現できるというのは
here's our American audience.
アメリカの視聴者を想定して作られます
out into the world
about the fact that America is not it.
ちゃんと考えることをせずにね
and everything, but it's not i.
これがすべてではありません
taking into account the fact
of these other places in the world
さまざまな場所があって
while we're telling stories.
関心を寄せるべきだということです
世界が小さく感じられるでしょう
that the world is a universal place,
押し進められますし
あなたは画期的な方法で
先駆けでもあります
launched "Scandal" in 2012,
2012年に制作したときには
of support on Twitter
「いいね」を獲得して
tricks up your sleeve
will happen in that regard?
coming out this summer.
今夏放送予定の番組です
to be able to do them in time.
分かりませんが
that we would live-tweet our show
実況ツイートをしたら
that would be fun.
思ったんです
would start to live-tweet along with us.
一緒に実況ツイートしだしたことです
to be a part of it,
周りを巻き込むと
on Twitter together
to make that possible
to make people feel engaged
思える方法を
all those different people making stories
物語を生み出す中で
are going to break through
storytellers will get paid?
身を立てているのでしょう?
with this concept as well.
苦戦しています
to watch this particular person's shows,
見るかどうかを決めるのか―
a passport to Shondaland. Right?
パスポートが必要?
That's a lot more work for me.
考える必要はありますね
going to be different ways,
a lot of content creators
コンテンツのクリエイターの多くは
in being distributors,
コンテンツを作ること
that I deserve to get paid for it,
得たいと思います
the people who work with me,
and they're all making a living.
身を立てられるようにすることです
is getting harder and harder.
困難になるばかりですけれど
どうでしょう
AR(拡張現実)
that you can't really binge-watch,
そういうものだと一気見ができないし
of those for storytelling?
ストーリーテリングでどうなるでしょう?
多くの時間を使って
and paying attention.
注意を向けたりしました
think of them for gaming,
思われがちで
for things like action,
向いていると思われます
a sense of intimacy
ある種の親密感が
想像してみてください
and have a conversation with Fitz,
フィッツと話ができるんです
while Fitz talks to you,
というのでもいいです
a choice that he makes,
説明するんです
a television screen,
and he's having this conversation.
彼の話を聞けるんです
from a television screen.
who's about to execute somebody.
ハックのような登場人物でもいいでしょう
to another character very rapidly,
見るのではなく
and tells you, you know,
あなたの方を見て
and why he's afraid and nervous.
緊張していると話してくれるんです
and I'm not sure it would work,
うまくいくかは分かりませんが
of something like that
視聴者がどう受け取るのかには
would be interesting,
面白いでしょうね
the people who watch my shows,
視聴者の皆さんは
in there for them.
the input of the audience?
どうですか?
どの展開を選ぶか
can actually go up to a certain point
I'm going to choose my own adventure.
関心はありますか?
or I'm going to run off with --
それとも―
your-own-adventure stories.
I want to be in control of everything,
というわけではなくて
or I'm watching a movie,
見ているときに
that a story is not as good
自分で決められたら
over exactly what's going to happen
面白くなることはないと
what I wanted to happen to Walter White,
何が起きてほしいと思ったかは言えますが
is not the same, and it's not as powerful.
そこまで力強くもならないでしょう
of how "The Sopranos" ends,
私が書くとしたら
that's nice and satisfying,
満足のいく結末になるでしょうが
and it's not the same emotional impact.
同じ感情的な衝撃は受けないでしょう
what that might be.
どうなったか想像してしまいますね
ちょっと ひと呼吸置かせて
I don't get to imagine it,
私は想像させてもらえない分
to know that somebody else has told.
力強いものになるんです
decide that, you know,
サメが勝つことにでもしたら
and you can walk away debating
議論を交わしたり
ゲームに過ぎません
but in a very different way.
また別の意味においてです
sell the right to sit there
画面の前に座って
売りにするというのは
than storytelling.
体験の共有に思えます
キャンプファイヤーですね
as a form of storytelling,
言いませんが
what about the super-super --
とってもとっても―
getting shorter, shorter, shorter.
短くなっていることについては?
now has something it calls shows
「番組」を持っていますが
it sounds like commercials.
CMみたいだとも思っています
「なんとかの提供でお送りします」って
really wonderful about it.
are watching television on their phones,
素晴らしいでしょう
most of the product is coming in,
携帯電話経由です
for shorter periods of content,
より多くお金を払わせられれば
a way to make a lot more money.
儲けを出せるところもあるでしょう
to make it and put it out there.
a short attention span, like my daughter,
集中が短時間しか続かないなら
that's what you want to make,
作りたいと思うでしょう
and it actually feels like narrative,
物語だと感じさせられれば
no matter what you do.
人々は見るものです
お持ちで何よりです
going to consume entertainment,
どう消費するのかをお尋ねしたいんです
the algorithmic robot overlords
過剰なまでのアルゴリズムによって
what they've already done.
見せられないのだとすれば
and make people well-rounded citizens?
偏りのない市民を育めるでしょう?
私の矯正方法は
than how somebody else might do it.
違っているかもしれません
how we're going to do it in the future.
正直分かりません
the subject of all of my experiments.
私の実験台になっていますから
what I call "Amish summers"
実践しています
all their computers and stuff
until they settle down
そのうち落ち着いて
in watching our own thing,
見ることに関心が向きすぎて
that we're being fed, sometimes,
与えられているのだと
your own opinions
目にするようになるわけです
more and more right about yourself.
より強く思うことになります
峻別すればいいのか?
maybe it'll all explode,
全部めちゃめちゃになるのか
just become more idiotic.
なっていくのかもしれません
any corrective that you could do
脚本のあるフィクションで
想像できますか?
that television has the power
大きな影響力を持って 人々を
よく考えます
about medical shows.
研究が行われました
87 percent of people
about medicine and medical facts
they do from their doctors,
論文からでもなく
and every time we make a mistake,
誤りを伝えてしまう度に
like we're going to do something bad,
罪悪感を覚えます
of good medical information.
伝えています
to give information on those shows.
他にもたくさんあります
to read the news,
fair information out on those shows,
伝える方法はたくさんあります
we're going to control people's minds way,
気味の悪いやり方ではなくて
very interesting and intelligent
知的な方法で
one side's version or the other,
ある一面的な情報を
was how we were giving the news.
奇妙に思えるでしょうね
you've written as fiction
あなたが描いた事柄の多くが
very disturbing for that reason.
ちょっと恐ろしいですね
that's about politics gone mad,
ドラマを作り
we've always told the show --
基本的に
pays attention to the papers.
新聞を読んでいました
We talk about everything.
話題にしました
done our show as a speculation.
作りはしました
考えるんです
if the wheels came off the bus
すべてがおかしくなったら
the wheels were coming off the bus
当時 車輪が実際に外れかけていて
分かるので
were really coming true.
現実のものになったと感じます
controlling the American election,
コントロールするというはずでした
撮影の準備もして
of being involved in the American election
関与しているという疑いが起き
what we were going to do for our season.
変えざるを得ませんでした
starts speaking Russian?
話し出すシーンだけど
and figure out what we're going to do."
どう変更するか考えなくちゃ」って
was going to happen,
in the world do you look?
注目しているのはどこですか?
storytelling right now?
している人はいますか?
of interesting stuff out there.
たくさんあります
is always amazing
常に素晴らしいですし
very much television at all,
シーズンが終わるまで
until I'm done with a season,
見ないようにしています
to creep into my head otherwise.
変に影響を受けてしまいますから
and talk about being on a throne?
玉座に就いたらどうかしらって
until the seasons are over.
なるべく見ないようにしています
interesting European television out there.
面白いものがたくさんあります
the stuff that they were showing,
いろいろ見てみましたが
I want to watch and check out.
ありましたね
thinking about tech stuff,
お好みでないにせよ
we had someone here at TED
視覚体験について話した人が
your TV shows essentially in your eye?
見られると話していたんです
who sat on the pantry floor
座り込んでいた―
考えたことは?
本以外の媒体?
to be Toni Morrison, so no.
なりたかった私には ありません
some bigger world,
という考えや
ものを作れるという考えは―
when new technology comes out
いつも興奮しますし
to want to try it.
and exciting right now,
今 無限にあって
to me, it feels like,
開拓時代に生きているようなものです
what we're going to settle on.
誰も分からないんですから
how to get the technology
ストーリーテリングの創造性が
of storytelling to meet,
the thing I briefly flew by earlier,
先ほど言及した事柄も可能になりました
which is a recent phenomenon,
制作し始めてからですね?
the storytelling process at all?
それによって変化しますか?
for the whole season beforehand, right?
物語はできているんでしょう?
where we were going to end.
終わり方が分かっているだけです
that's been going on for 14 seasons
14シーズン続いているものがあって
who have been watching it for 14 seasons,
見続けている人たちもいれば
I'd encounter in the grocery store
12歳の女の子の中には
297 episodes in three weeks.
見尽くした子もいるでしょう
experience for them,
それは非常に質の異なる体験です
a very short period of time
集中的にとても強烈なやり方で
has a completely different arc
物語はまったく違う形をしていて
and then leaving it. It's a strange --
といったような奇妙な―
and then putting it down.
一気に読み終える感じですね
of the experience.
something for 14 seasons.
見続けなくてもいいんです
the way everything's supposed to be.
ありません
that you don't think we should touch?
何かあると思いますか?
I think of story that way.
そのように考えていません
and what characters would do
彼らの行動を軸に考えていて
in order to make them move forward,
彼らが何をすべきかを考えています
in terms of just plot,
考えておらず
into my writer's room and pitch me plot,
プロットだけをプレゼンしても
I need to hear what's real.
本当の中身が知りたい」と
to think there's something I wouldn't do
考えるようなことはしません
pieces of plot off a wall or something.
間引きするようなものです
do you think you will use --
どの程度使うつもりですか―
on the board of Planned Parenthood
役員に名を連ねて
in the Hillary Clinton campaign.
選挙活動に関わりましたね
you will use your storytelling
どのくらいストーリーテリングを
難しいと感じているからです
there's a lot of organizations
肯定的な物語を欠いているところは
that they've created for themselves
with a better narrative.
キャンペーンが多くあります
narrative for themselves.
躍進できるでしょう
that could happen
that any speechwriter would mean it.
語りであってもです
that that's, like, my job to do that.
分かりません
SR: Thank you.
(ションダ)ありがとう
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Shonda Rhimes - Writer, producerWith the runaway success of shows like Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes has become one of Hollywood’s most powerful icons.
Why you should listen
When ABC kicked off its 2014 television season by devoting its Thursday night line-up to the Shondaland shows How to Get Away With Murder, Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes -- already one of the most influential producers in Hollywood -- became arguably the single most powerful voice in television today. In 2015, ABC snapped up Rhimes’ latest series, The Catch. Shondaland shows have the special ability to capture both fan devotion and critical attention – she’s won everything from a Peabody Award to a People’s Choice Award.
Rhimes is known for her groundbreaking storytelling, her candor and humor in the face of her critics, and for never shying away from speaking her mind. She’s also known for her social media savvy, and fans of her shows basically own Twitter on Thursday nights. Her first book, Year of Yes, was published in November 2015.
Shonda Rhimes | Speaker | TED.com
Cyndi Stivers - Encourager-in-chief, TED Residency
Cyndi Stivers curates special events for TED and often serves as a board member, adviser, business strategist and startup coach.
Why you should listen
Cyndi Stivers is encourager-in-chief of the TED Residency, an idea incubator at TED headquarters in New York. She started out in hot-type newspapers and has since shepherded media startups and reinvigorated venerable brands on nearly every platform, including magazines, television, radio and online, right back to the early days of the consumer internet. From 1995 to 2005, while in charge of North American operations for London-based Time Out Group Ltd., she led the creation of Time Out magazines, guidebooks and websites for New York and Chicago.
Stivers is a longtime trustee of Barnard College, of which she is a proud alumna. For more work history, please see LinkedIn or cyndistivers.com, and for photos of urban gardens and other obsessions, follow @CyndiStivers on Twitter or Facebook.
Cyndi Stivers | Speaker | TED.com