Workshop: Storytelling

How to tell a good story?

1. Don’t make it too long
2. Notice of the BONES of the story.

• Dig really deep
• Keep the subject always be the protagonist
• Audiences’ emotions should constantly change throughout the whole story
  • Contentment/ Balance (can’t always be balanced otherwise it will bore the audience)
  • Humor
  • Heroism
  • Disgust
  • Outrage
  • Fear
  • Wonder
  • Sympathy
    

How to get to know your character well?

• Outside characteristics & Inside characteristics
• Set a archetype in advance
  • Devil
    • “You will…”
    • Demanding
  • Queen/King
    • “I command…”
  • Crone
    • hunch back
    • “Mine!”
  • Hero
    • “I will!”
    • Superman pose
  • Maiden
    • eyes down
    • “I have a secret”
  • Child
    • “Okay!”
• Ask yourself several questions about them
  • Where do they feel safe/unsafe?
  • Which archetypes do they like spending time with?
  • Where will they do when they are threatened?
• Not only focusing on the main character, but also see the world through other’s point of views