Storytelling Tool 2: Experience – Week 6

Story telling tool 2: Experience

– A storyteller should be concerned with the potential of every experience.

– Everything about you – where you were born, what food you eat, the bump on your forehead – your experiences are unique and irreplaceable.

– Many of your experience are universal and translatable and can be used in any location.

Universal themes
– Friendships
– Love
– Family
– Death
– Betrayal
– Loneliness
– Hardships (different for different people, different culture.)
– Hope

Translatable (what would you change)
– Settings
– Characters
– Language
– Culture

Tip:
– If you don’t know what to do with a character, make him yourself for a while. (Put ourselves in other people’s shoes)

– See how he relates to the world he has been thrown into.

-All people have fragments of stories.

– These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more.

– Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard.

– Good stories are born in the heart, not the head.

– Remember the rod of an audience.

– After all, you ARE the audience.

Storytelling tool 3: Memory

– Your memory is a wonderful cabinet of past incidents which you have experienced or been told.

– These memories are points of reference to your own past existence.

What’s the difference between memory and experience?

Experience – true
Memory – can be manufactured.
Eg. Can be true or can be false.

Tip: Write what you do not know because you will find some part of you that does know.

There is always room for personal discovery.

How do we use memory to build creative content?

Film Screening

Les Mistons (1957)
Director: Francois Truffaut

Film Screening

Les Mistons (1957)
Director: Francois Truffaut

Assignment 1
Write 2 short stories
– One is completely TRUE
– One is completely Fase

Only the author knows which is which!

Post these on your blogs under a page called true or false by tues, 3rd June, 10am.

Assignment 2
After posing your story, visit 3 classmates below you on the blogroll and vote for which story you think is true and which is false.