Creating Compelling Digital Stories
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This document discusses techniques for creating compelling digital stories, including following standard story structures, crafting an engaging hook, employing visual storytelling techniques like the five shot method, planning through storyboarding and animatics, and blending genres like documentary and drama. Effective speeches compare the current situation to a better potential future. Neuroscience research shows how stories elicit empathy through dramatic arcs and emotional responses.
Creating Compelling Digital Stories
- 1. Making Compelling Digital Stories cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by pasukaru76: http://flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/3694736727/
- 2. What Works? cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by i am brad: http://flickr.com/photos/iambrad/220687809/
- 3. Shape of Stories standard formula for screenplay = three act structure, aka Freytag Pyramid
- 4. Kurt Vonnegout on the Shapes of Stories http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ Paul Zak: Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc http://youtu.be/DHeqQAKHh3M
- 5. Nancy Duarte Analyzes Effective Speeches Comparing what is (the status quo) with what could be, eventually conveying to the audience the idea of “the new bliss.” www.duarte.com/books/resonate/sparkline-overview/
- 6. The Hook opening question, provocative statement
- 7. Lost Flash Drive - Remixed then Returned youtu.be/IG1ZkW_u_Bw
- 8. BBC Five Shot Method • closeup on hands • closeup on face • wide shot • over the shoulder • unusual/side shot http://www.slideshare.net/fuzheado/teaching-visual- storytelling-the-five-shot-method-and-beyond
- 9. Planning cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by rodaniel: http://flickr.com/photos/rlodan01/5321531740/
- 11. Storyboarding any way you can
- 12. Animatics - video storyboard sketches and music/audio http://youtu.be/U1a1CmIpUBA
- 13. Two Genres Docudrama PSA