Storytellingfor interns

Tell me about yourself

1. Your childhood

2. Your schooling

3. Your work

20–30 seconds on each part

richardcornish.com/about

A comedy is the rise in fortune of a

sympathetic character, causing the audience’s

encouragement and good will.

A tragedy is the downfall and suffering of a

character by misjudgment, causing the

audience’s pity and fear.

http://condor.depaul.edu/dsimpson/tlove/comic-tragic.html

Plot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_(narrative)

Yep, Wikipedia

Inverted pyramid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid

More Wikipedia

Elements of storytelling

Setting

Desire

Frustration

Tension

Conflict

Hero

Villain

Danger

Hope

Surprise

Excitement

Humor

Delight/Sadness

Wonder

Resolution

22 story rules

http://pixartouchbook.com/blog/2011/5/15/pixar-story-rules-one-

version.html

Reinvention

+

Redemption

To learn what it

means to be human

Storytelling is

communities

Questions?