storytelling
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Storytelling is really just in and out points. Knowing the start, knowing the ending, then working out how everything between bridges the two
True in macro and in micro. Every scene is just a bridge between 2 distinct points of change in a larger transition
The Rising Importance of the Great Art of Storytelling - Above the Crowd
Bill Gurleyabovethecrowd.com
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats…... See more
Nathan Baughx.comSendak understood that stories can be scary. He believed that we should all—kids and adults alike—experience stories that deliver encounters with all the emotions available to us; that scary stories are how we become prepared for any eventuality. Indeed, this is the very reason we need stories. We don’t do well with uncertainty, and so we seek out
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Whether it’s on YouTube, blogs, socials, etc., internet storytelling favors first person “I made/did/think this” over the third person “look at what these other people are making/doing/thinking” that’s common in broadcast media.
Eliot Pepertwitter.comWe are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as... See more
Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
I make my own stories and I'm very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don't have the courage to face the present and make stories that are relevant today, about life today...
– Guillermo del Toro
Stories are so important, they drive everything. The universe is basically math and stories... and the stories are the more interesting part most of the time.