Storytelling Techniques
• Writing for audience

Screenwriter = storyteller
• The cinematic experience is not just made up of words you might put on paper, but the audiences’ emotional reaction to that information.

Director to People (NO)
Writer to People (NO)
Camera to People (NO)
It’s People TO People!!! (YESH!)

Writer’s purpose
To connect:
• Themselves
• Their unique vision
• The material
• The drama
• Others
• Audiences want to be transported by a screenplay.

Where do u look for a story?
• Inside yourself
• Everything to learn about other people is already in you.
• Now you need to figure out how to connect to it.

First storytelling tool: Observation
Second storytelling tool: Memory
• It’s like just remembering the fun time.
• Is it true??? After a while, the memory changes like you only remember the specific things.
o Filter through reality
o E.g. you hate the time spent in school but when you looked back after a few years, you only remember e fun parts of school.
Third storytelling tool: Experience
• Its like u learnt a lesson from experience.
• Is it true??? It is in reality!

All people have fragments of stories.
These potential ideas prompt your desire to know more.
Respond emotionally and intellectually to what you heard.
Good stories are born in the heart, not the head.
Remember the role of an audience.
After all, you are the audience!

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Review
• 3 storytelling tools
o Observation
o Memory
o Experience
• Aristotle’s storytelling theories
• 3 act structures
• Developing 3 dimensional characters
• Writing for an audience