9 Steps Towards Telling Your Story
08/10/16 • 27 min
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Following up last week's conversation regarding what it takes to transform real life into an actual story, we now take time out to cover the first steps you want to take when building that narrative. Starting with basic plot elements and then moving to complex character issues, we reveal the same process we use to help individuals and organizations begin to think deeply about their stories.
Links and Show Notes
- Last week's interview with Dave Pimentel, Disney's Head of Story on Moana
- Dramatica Users Group analysis of Stalag 17 watch or listen in on an analysis by Dramatica story experts
- The Master Storyteller Method Melanie's brand new process for working backwards through the Dramatica process.
-Transforming Real Life into a Story Last week's article on the foundation for transforming the real world into a narrative - 1-on-1 Story Consulting from Narrative First - our expert story service for individuals & organizations looking to tell the story of their lives
And don't forget...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
Download the action guide for this week's episode!
Following up last week's conversation regarding what it takes to transform real life into an actual story, we now take time out to cover the first steps you want to take when building that narrative. Starting with basic plot elements and then moving to complex character issues, we reveal the same process we use to help individuals and organizations begin to think deeply about their stories.
Links and Show Notes
- Last week's interview with Dave Pimentel, Disney's Head of Story on Moana
- Dramatica Users Group analysis of Stalag 17 watch or listen in on an analysis by Dramatica story experts
- The Master Storyteller Method Melanie's brand new process for working backwards through the Dramatica process.
-Transforming Real Life into a Story Last week's article on the foundation for transforming the real world into a narrative - 1-on-1 Story Consulting from Narrative First - our expert story service for individuals & organizations looking to tell the story of their lives
And don't forget...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
Previous Episode
Transforming Real Life Into A Story and Disney's Moana
After a brief interlude for follow-up, we cover an effective technique for turning events in the real world into a full functional complete story. Understanding the deep thematic elements of your narrative is key to connecting with your Audience.
-Transforming Real Life into a Story our article on how to do it
- Storyforming Screencast Series screencasts designed to show you how to use Dramatica to analyze a story
- The Dark Horse deep Dramatica analysis of this great film
- The Tendency of a Main Character to Drive a Story explanation of Dramatica's story point Tendency
- Dramatica's Grand Argument Story and what it means for a narrative
- Our deep analysis of Eddie the Eagle
- Our technique of Dramatic Playgrounds for use with Dramatica
- Disney's animated feature Moana
- Dave Pimentel's Instagram see what Dave looks like and all of his awesome drawings
And don't forget...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
Next Episode
Using Dramatica to Assess Narratives in the Real World
We're very excited to announce that we hired our first two employees here at Narrative First! The explosion in requests for our services over the summer kicked our plans into high gear. We look forward to providing not only a higher quality of service, but also unique and compelling services not available elsewhere.
Story consultant Jon Gentry will be helping out with story analysis with an emphasis on real world narratives while vitality coach Summer De La Fuente will be using Dramatica to help locate and resolve their own personal issues.
More detailed info on our site within the coming days...
In addition, I cover my initial analysis of Florence Foster Jenkins.
Links and Show Notes
- The Dramatica Analysis Filter - search through hundreds of analyses to find just the right storyform
- Download the SparksGrove/Thoughtform analysis of ESPN, Pay TV, and OTT conflict - link to the original report provided by SparksGrove. Note that there are errors within the report that will be corrected at some in the future here on Narrative First
- ESPN Can't Stop Bleeding Subscribers - read how the cable sports giant lost 1.5 million subscribers during the 2nd quarter of 2016
- Traditional Pay TV Operators Surviving OTT Onslaught - read how Pay TV basically followed Thoughtform's analysis and found success by showing how insufficient and inadequate OTT services really are
And don't forget...
Narrative First theme by Alex Hull. Hear more on his Soundcloud, Operation Solace
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