Last week was my second time that I missed Storytelling. It wasn’t my intention to miss, but I was held up at the polyclinic for a very long time, so sigh! Yesterday when I entered class for Studio Production, Miss Hong talked to me, telling me that I have missed Storytelling twice and should not miss it anymore. She also said that Mr Leslie had told her my work is of good standard (I wonder if it’s true?) and that caught me by surprise. Why? Because all along I have no idea on where I am standing in this module and it became something worrying to me. So, is it true to what she say?
And on Wednesday, I received a comment from Mr Leslie of the reflection I had done for Aristotle. He said it was excellent reflection and I was quite happy. It was a motivation, an assurance, so to speak. At least I know that I am on the right track and that I have to keep improving on it weekly. To be honest, beyond the desire of wanting to score for this module (I hope I still stand the chance though), I really want to grasp the concept of storytelling techniques. Why? I hope that in the rear future, I can be of some help and produce better short film in my church, and next time when I move on to the working industry, I will be able to touch the hearts of people with the stories I want to tell them.
Life and technique work hand in hand. I can have tonnes of life stories and experiences, but without the technique foundation, I will never be able to bring the stories and experiences to its fullest experience.
Speaking of which, I remember being very excited about writing Letter to the Past last night. There is one person I love and treasure a lot, and I hope I will be able to express the emotions, which are still rather fresh, well.
And uh huh, no more missing of Storytelling class!
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I have gotten the notes from Bel for the class I missed.
- storyteller should be concerned with the potential of every sentence
- Everything about you! Your experiences are unique!
- Many of your experiences are universal and translatable and can be used in any location.
- If you don’t know what to do with a character, make him yourself for a while. See how he relates to the world he has been thrown into.
- Plunder your own personal background!!!
• Things happen to you as you grow up an things currently happened will make terrific story source.
Life is unpredictable! We must picture the events and sequences like real life.
Well, I would think that in many stories that we right, they are either out of the experiences we got from our own or what had happened to people around us. I suppose that explains why so many of fifty words and openers are similar because I got them out of my own life. And yes, they all read emotional, no doubt.
But wait, I don’t quite get this – storyteller should be concerned with the potential of every sentence. How to achieve that?
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You should be concerned with the potential of every experience, not sentence – I’m quite sure it’s supposed to be “experience”.