This document discusses techniques for creating compelling digital stories, including following standard story structures, crafting an engaging hook, employing visual storytelling techniques like the five shot method, planning through storyboarding and animatics, and blending genres like documentary and drama. Effective speeches compare the current situation to a better potential future. Neuroscience research shows how stories elicit empathy through dramatic arcs and emotional responses.

1. Making Compelling Digital Stories
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2. What
Works?
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3. Shape of Stories
standard formula for screenplay = three act
structure, aka Freytag Pyramid

4. Kurt
Vonnegout on
the Shapes of
Stories
http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Paul Zak: Empathy,
Neurochemistry,
and the Dramatic
Arc
http://youtu.be/DHeqQAKHh3M

5. Nancy Duarte Analyzes Effective Speeches
Comparing what is (the status quo) with what could be,
eventually conveying to the audience the idea of “the new
bliss.”
www.duarte.com/books/resonate/sparkline-overview/

6. The Hook
opening question,
provocative statement

7. Lost Flash Drive - Remixed then
Returned
youtu.be/IG1ZkW_u_Bw

8. BBC Five Shot
Method
• closeup on hands
• closeup on face
• wide shot
• over the shoulder
• unusual/side shot
http://www.slideshare.net/fuzheado/teaching-visual-
storytelling-the-five-shot-method-and-beyond

9. Planning
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10. Storyboarding Toy Story
http://youtu.be/QOeaC8kcxH0

11. Storyboarding any way you can

12. Animatics - video storyboard
sketches and music/audio
http://youtu.be/U1a1CmIpUBA

13. Two Genres
Docudrama
PSA