Telling Stories for Children: Grandparents- How to Tell a Story

http://www.tellingstoriesforchildren has a new video teaching grandparents how to tell a story. Simple and fun.



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A Voice Announcer Dumps His Brain Out

From http://www.voiceannouncer net here is a video of my voice losing my mind in the Arizona heat. I just was working a warm up for a voice over and the microphone was on. The result is a silly video that we added some pictures too, but I do think the very last frame at the end of the film is "awesome!" That may be my new catch phrase. Please enjoy and don't look for deep meanings here in this video.



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Corporate Storytelling for Manipulation

In an interesting blog post with a "digital storytelling" video from way across the pond, storytelling coach Raf Stevens asks the question:

Is storytelling in a business context today not mostly used as a manipulative corporate communication tool?

I answered:

I must have missed the storytelling in the video. I see electronics, I see pictures, I see a giant toy, I see distraction. No storytelling. Frankly, not even digital storytelling.

I am with you that storytelling needs to be reclaimed. And...I have been banging that drum for a long time. Storytelling requires me and you. Not "me away from you" via digital anything.

Face-to-face is an essential component of storytelling. If I can't see you, one-to-one or even one-to-an-audience, I am not storytelling. I may be acting. I may be selling. I may be performing. But I am not storytelling until I can hear my audience breathe and take in their energy and contributions. That is storytelling.

When we forget that the audience breathes with us and co-creates the story, then our branding is sales or at worst, manipulation.





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