Recommended free references to master storytelling.
Almost all the industry sectors - from entertainment, education, digital technology, computer and sciences - need someone who can create an immersive experience through language dynamics which is only one part of the storytelling skill. A good storyteller would bring language alive, have the ability to influence, and build connections among the audiences. Hence, mastering storytelling would definitely open a lot more opportunities.
Ga Jelas collected FIVE free references that can help you dig seek the storytelling frameworks from different creator's (and writer's) perspective. Let’s explore it one by one HUAHAHA!
#1 Khan Academy - Pixar in a Box: The art of storytelling
“The power of story is that it has an ability to connect people on an emotional level.” - Pete Docter (Director of Inside Out and Monster Inc.)
Khan Academy collaborated with Pixar to provide a series online class on how Pixar artists do their jobs. It also has a lot of interesting topics about animation, starting from storytelling to character modelling. You're gonna love this class as the instructor will come from the best creative minded behind Pixar works, and the best part is all the modules are available for FREE!
Pixar in a Box: The Art of Storytelling explained very detailed and yet practical steps on how to develop engaging storytelling. One of the powerful messages that Ga Jelas found from the lecture is this: “Something from your own life will make that story come alive”.
This so much relates to us as almost all of the most popular Ga Jelas stories have also projected creator's daily life. Thus, we believe that the main point of storytelling is to make the audience feel the emotions of the story we’re conveying.
Let’s learn more about how to develop a story from Pixar HERE!
#2 The Art of Visual Storytelling: How Comics Work | Learn with Smithsonian
Skillshare is an online learning community that has thousands of classes for all creative and curious people like you. One of favorite classes offered by this learning platform is The Art of Visual Storytelling: How Comic Work teached by Phil Jimenez, a comic creator of DC and Marvel comics, who will share his knowledge and experience on visualizing the storytelling of comics.
The Art of Visual Storytelling: How Comics Work tells us about how to put storytelling into scratching, identify key elements that make up the best stories, and help us in finding the emotional core of a great narrative.
It is very important to know when we should play with our readers emotions and to know which elements help in creating a dynamic in our stories. Therefore, come and click this LINK.
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“Storytelling is a joke telling - knowing your punchline, ending, knowing everything you’re saying from first sentence to last is leading to a singular goal.” - Andrew Stanton (Director of Pixar Movie, Wall-e, Finding Nemo, and many more).
Andrew Stanton is one of the most famous directors and storytellers in America. Andrew stated that EVERY STORYTELLING MUST HAVE ONE SINGULAR GOAL. So we need to be aware of every dialogue, punchline, and all the things we put in the story to ensure that it must lead to a specific direction. This will only be done if the writer can describe what is the goal of every character involved in the story.
Another tips from Andree is that we can use the giving a promise trick, where in the beginning of the story, we use phrases as “Once upon a time”, “Hey, let me tell you a story about somebody but I PROMISE you that it’s going to be worth your time!” to gain the audience interest in our story so that they have this feeling to want to keep up with the stories.
Did you know that using storytelling without a dialogue also helps to make your comics more interesting and alive. You could try to create an illustration that may describe the situation, play with the character emotions, expression, and gesture to tell the audience about the situation.
Learn from the amazing and talented Andrew Stanton in TED Talk HERE!
#4 TEDx Talks - The Art of Storytelling | Patrick Wallace | TEDxChadwickSchool
“Storytelling is a movement of change where story tone can create a change in emotions, a change of perspective and in changing society itself.” - Patrick Wallace
From this video we can conclude that storytelling could really move someone’s heart in a way we couldn’t explain. Story presents a new perspective from the character’s point of view that allows the audience to be emphatic.
Jump to the LINK below to know how Patrick Wallace shares his experience on storytelling!
#5 Jessica Thiefels - The Art of Storytelling: What I’ve Learned in 8 Years of Writing
Jessica Thiefels is CEO of a content marketing agency Consulting Graphic. Experienced in more than 8 years writing stories for many different purposes - especially marketing, she summarizes all the important points that a writer should know for drafting better storytelling, even for a fact-based writing.
In this article, Ga Jelas found an interesting approach to make our story more relevant to the reader. She said that: The Power Of Storytelling is not to show off but it is how we, as a creator, could bring the audience to feel like they’re in the story. Therefore, being creators need empathy too!
Curious on how Jessica Thief shares her experience on writing storytelling content? read more HERE!
Do you have any interesting references for learning storytelling as well? please share with us in the comment box below! Happy learning, all! :DD
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