Storytelling is a series of events which have actionable items that play on a persons emotions. Stories can be images, audio, video, or written. They are created by someone who desires to share information or an experience which could be fiction or non-fiction.
Storytelling
26 Wednesday Mar 2014
Posted in Design
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Okay… but that sounds a bit more like a definition than what it means to you. O would like to see more writing than a single sentence. The goal is not to come up with right “answers” but think through multiple ideas. What connotations does the word bring you? images? memories? What is it about stories that make then effective (or annoying).
You also should be writing more with a beginning/middle/end structure. Let’s say this is the only blog post I ever read on your site, maybe found via a web search. Do I know what it ins reference too? You should be contextualizing your writing, so every post stands on its own, this one is dependent on the reader knowing your class assignment..
I know this is new and different!
After seeing what others have done I think I get it now. Only problem I have now is for some strange reason my thoughts don’t seem to be flowing like they used to. It may be because I am under a lot of pressure at work, home and school with deadlines all around. I used to get a lot of sleep, 7 to 10 hours a day and now it seems that I barely get 3. Maybe its true that the brain needs to rest in order rebuild and process what you learn. Just like a computer. You eventually have to shut it down every once in a while to remove the cache (trash) that builds up in memory so that it can process information faster after the reboot.
I tried to think of an example of a story that does not play on my emotions, but I could not! You’re absolutely right. I think even when the emotion is negative, it is still an emotion. This is why storytelling is so powerful and used in ads as in the Google commercial we viewed. Someone recently told me that we connect with others through our weaknesses. Sharing a story of a time when things didn’t seem to be coming together, and where we made mistakes along the way, helps us to connect to those we’re sharing that experience with.
I think this is an interesting take on storytelling. I agree with you that a story includes a series of events, but do all stories have to play on a person’s emotions? A GOOD story might include elements that trigger emotions, but I don’t think a basic story structure has to. For example, a basic story might be that I walked down the driveway to get the mail and then walked back into the house. Nothing emotional there, at least on the face of it. I could add details to the story that would make it more emotional–maybe, for example, a car swerved toward me as I reached my mailbox and I was scared–but if that didn’t happen, the foundation of going to get the mail and going inside is still a story. Also, I’d love to see how your definition applies to an example. Maybe you could elaborate a bit and show how this definition is a factor in something you’ve done, or a story someone else has told you.