20. Without looking back at the earlier slides,
How many character's were involved?
Did you see him tie the ends of the rope?
How many clothes pins did you see him put on?
How many colors were used during this story?
Did the sock puppets have noses?
How many slides did it take to tell this story?
How many slides were the puppets in?
Did you ever see the Puppeteer's feet?
21. DOES THIS QUIZ MATTER?
If you went back over the story, you
could find the answer to all of these
questions. They were all there in
plain sight. But did you pay attention
to it to these things…
22. OR
…were you LOST IN THE STORY,
not paying attention to anything
below the THRESHOLD OF
CONSCIOUS AWARENESS?
23. This is exactly the case with background
music. It's always there, but we don't
usually pay attention to it. But we could
pay attention to the music at any time.
This is true for all of the structuring of
any story.
The audience gets LOST IN THE STORY,
unless the storyteller does something
wrong, like being boring or confusing or
breaking the fourth wall, like our Blue
sock puppet did.
29. Or are you
distracting them,
bumping them out of
the story?
30. This material, as well as other demonstrations on how to direct
your audience's attention, perceptions, meanings and
EMOTIONS can be found in Directing the Story: Professional
storytelling and storyboarding techniqes from Focal Press.
It's also great for instructional designers.
31. Francis Glebas is a story artist, director, author, teacher, and speaker
WPIX (speaker with pictures)
Portfolio: francisglebas.weebly.com
Storytelling tutorials: francisglebas.blogspot.com
Art tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/frankiegeniustein
You may also enjoy The Animator's Eye and Iggy's Incredibly Easy Way to Write a Story.