Friday, March 6, 2015

Telling a Great Story


Tips to telling a good story are:
1. "Storytelling is knowing your punchline."
2. There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.
3. You have to make the audience care.
4. Promise your viewers that the future story will be worth their time.
5. One of the most involved forms of storytelling is without words.
6. People are born with deductive reasoning.
7. Make the audience put things together (2+2).
8. Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
9. Your story needs to have truthful conflict, pull from what you know.
10. All stories have an underlining theme.
11. Are you able to evoke wonder?

Andrew Stanton tells the story from the end to the beginning in order to engage the audience. After listening to the TED talk with Andrew Stanton, I feel that pre-production is one of the most important steps in planning a story, as my partner and I begin to plan our film opening I understand that we must have the full story. We have two minutes to get the viewer involved in the storyline. This means we must promise them something good.

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