D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Narratives for different media (Week 3)

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Narrative A clear sequence of events that happened over time Both what happened and the order of the events are important! Descriptive, use action verbs “Show with the sound “Tell with the words” “Reading the visuals” Trigger Five senses of your audience “Let your audience Touch, Smell and Taste your through your story”

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Narrative is present in myth, legend, fable, tale, novella, epic, history, tragedy, drama, comedy, mime, painting, cinema, comics, news items, conversation.

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Human face “Readers want a good story … that will fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages. This happens when readers recognize the people in the book, their behaviors, their surrounding and their talk.” Motion and Pacing “Writing requires pacing, an unhurried, uncrowded revelation of facts that allows the reader enough time to pause over an idea, absorb it and reflect on it.” Titles Catchy, attention grabbing Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Character development “The creative nonfiction writer does not ‘create’ characters; rather, he or she reveals them to the reader as honestly and accurately as possible… Like most contemporary fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers reveal character much as it happens in real life—bit by bit.” Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Character development Fiction writers worked at characterization; nonfiction writers concentrated on events. Creative nonfiction writers say that because so many events occur as the result of human interactions, the event cannot be fully understood without also understanding something of the peoples’ surrounding Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Keeping the dominant impression in mind, add details, expand the most important parts of the story. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Keeping the dominant impression in mind, add details, expand the most important parts of the story. Show, don’t tell. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Keeping the dominant impression in mind, add details, expand the most important parts of the story. Show, don’t tell. Look at the introduction part. Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Keeping the dominant impression in mind, add details, expand the most important parts of the story. Show, don’t tell. Look at the introduction part. One main idea per paragraph Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Writing your own stories Ask questions about the events you want to write about. Write down everything you remember, go do something else. Summarize the main point of the story in one or two sentences. Think about creating a dominant impression. Keeping the dominant impression in mind, add details, expand the most important parts of the story. Show, don’t tell. Look at the introduction part. One main idea per paragraph Proof read! Narrative text:

D IGITAL S TORYTELLING Audio elements for storytelling Voiceover Sound bites Actualities, ambience Background music Narrative Audio: