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A statement by the National Storytelling Network defines Storytelling as an ancient art form and a valuable form of human expression. Because story is essential to so many art forms, however, the word “storytelling” is often used in many ways. As a result, the National Storytelling Network would like to explain the term as it is used by the growing and vibrant community of storytelling practitioners in the United States and Canada. Our hope is to call attention to storytelling as an art worth promoting, and to help those outside the storytelling community to distinguish storytelling from other, related forms of human expression.
If you want to tell better stories, take a few moments to identify the emotions of your characters and especially the change of emotion. Then make sure your audience can see it and more importantly feel it.
If you are trying to figure out how to write an autobiography, you have probably long since passed the step of deciding whether or not your life is worth writing about. You know you have a story to tell. You know it’s worth telling. And, whether you are doing it for your family and children or for the public at large, you are interested in sharing it. So the next question is, “Where do I start?” The easiest answer would be at the beginning. But the beginning is not always so simple to identify—your life is a story, whether you realize it or not, and to write your autobiography, you have to do a little work on discovering that story. Here are some exercises that will help ...
Doug Lipman, a key figure in the New England storytelling revival, is known throughout the United States and abroad as a performer, coach, author, and teacher. Visit his website at http://storydynamics.com. Subscribe to any/all of Doug's six newsletter options.
Transmedia is a powerful new form of interactive storytelling, and Inanimate Alice is its darling.
Most audiences do not want to be preached to outside of the church. However, it is sometimes easy to fall into preaching especially when you are very passionate about your message. Below are three guidelines you can follow to prevent destroying your speech due to preaching.
This is a collection of digital storytelling examples I use with students and teachers during digital storytelling workshops. I have a comprehensive digital filing cabinet filled with more resources for students and teachers http://www.techteachers.com/digitalstorytelling.htm Check back often, as I add new examples as I discover them. If you have an example to share let me know!
Kamishibai is a form of visual and participatory storytelling that combines the use of hand drawn visuals with the engaging narration of a live presenter. Kami (紙) means paper and shibai (芝居 ) means play/drama. The origins of kamishibai are not clear, but its roots can be taced back to various picture storytelling traditions in Japan such as etoki and emaki scrolls and other forms of visual storytelling which date back centuries. However, the form of Kamishibai that one thinks of today developed around 1929 and was quite popular in the 30s, and 40s, all but dying out with the introduction of television later in the 1950s.
One of the fundamental goals of content marketing, of all advertising, is to create fans that will spread your stories for free, lowering your marketing expenses. Content that appeals to our social nature is ideal for storytelling, so find the stories about your employees, your company, your services and your products and tell them! Below are five tips to help you improve your storytelling.
This chapter is about the many ways to tell a story and serves as an introduction to videojournalism as it relates to nonfiction storytelling. Videojournalism is not reality TV; it is not traditional front-page news articles. The secret to good videojournalism lies in finding and telling well-shaped, powerful stories in multimedia presentation. Most successful stories have a main character. There are many ways to tell a story. You can do it chronologically— start at the beginning and end at the end. Or, you can disclose the most important piece of information first, and then reveal the rest of the story, bit by bit. You can tell the story through the eyes of your characters, or from the viewpoint of an outsider. As a videojournalist, you get to decide how you will tell your story—in a way that will compel your audience to stop, look, and listen.
Storytelling: Marketing and advertising have changed irrevocably. Organizations are now telling stories to connect with customers. Storytelling isn't hard, but it isn't easy either.
All writers need research to make their worlds resonate for the reader; to add details that make their stories believable, however fantastic. This is what hooks and holds readers. The secret is to identify what you need to know, where to find verifiable information … and when to stop.
You’ve probably heard me say it before…when you find your story, it makes all the difference. Here’s why...
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Regular contributor Thaler Pekar helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that can rally critical support. Here are some tips on how you can elicit stories about your organization from colleagues, board members, donors, clients, grantees, and others.
In his new book, “The Power of Storytelling: Captivate, Convince or Convert Any Business Audience Using Stories from Top CEOs" Jim Holtje shares the stories of those corporate legends who inspired their employees with their deeds and with their tales.
A best-selling Swedish writer moves to Africa and learns to listen.
Five years after Youtube’s birth there’s probably not a newsroom in the land that isn’t trying to do video journalism in some way or another. I say ‘trying’ because, as you’ll probably have seen, the vast amount of online video produced just doesn’t cut it. It’s long, boring, technically poor – and amateurish. This is a big shame because online video – done well – has the power to be an art form, to touch people, to make them understand something, to make them care.
Looking for a tale to kick off a speech, enliven a meeting, or connect with a sales prospect? You can find stories in a variety of locations. Which type of story you pick depends on your personal style and what objective you’re trying to achieve.
You know you have it in you to write. You can see the character’s faces and hear their voices. The names you’ve christened them with are as familiar to you as a close family member. You even have a few scenes rolling around in your head that excite you. But what do you do when you’re missing the most important element to bring it all together? What do you do when you just don’t have a story?
Jumpstart Storytelling can drive ideas and collaboration. Learn how to run a session.
I have recently begun thinking of storytelling in a less linear form. Film and television are passive experiences for the viewer, you sit back and the story washes over you. A nice experience but if we want to create something truly memorable, something that has the ability to create change in the viewer, I think the story must present some sort of “call to action”.
Genealogy, often misspelled as geneology, is the study of someone’s heritage and recording their lineage. Researching your ancestry is detective work. Finding that one source that helps us go one generation deeper, or helps to uncover a new family fact is very rewarding. To get started with discovering your heritage, follow these steps ...
Several developers in our network make apps that focus on learning new languages. Our guest post this week highlights strategies from two families that cover storytelling as an important component of bilingual education in the home.
Two TED Talks came to my attention in the last couple of days — one that embodies an affecting story (as many TED Talks do) and another that casts a critical and suspicious eye on stories themselves. I often see storied presentations, and I often see written pieces on integrating story into presentations, but a wonderful post by John Zimmer analyzes in detail a storied presentation. Zimmer is a Toastmaster who blogs about public speaking and often integrates Toastmaster-specific content. I urge you to read Zimmer’s full analysis, which is enormously helpful to public speakers, but here’s my brief synthesis that applies the analysis to integrating story into presentations...
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