Part IV- Building your own story-The 7 Keys of Storytelling: Begin at the End

Building your own story!



I have always thought that if i had less to d=say it would be easier to just focus on what thing and say it, but when you have many things to say a lot of ideas and a lot of stories and characters, i find it best to focus on your favorite, and the one that it is closest to being finished!!.

According to (Alexander pg 193) for easier story telling begin with a small media horizon such as a single web page, a blog or a flicker account. Thinking of a story idea, create a single piece of content for it in text and image, shoot a photo remix a story from the public domain or write one from scratch. Don't think of that item as a representational powerpoint slide but as a mystery that can't be solved right away. Brainstorm a cryptic image, a paragraph occurring in media. I find this process a little confusing to follow he uses a lot of language that although is simple is very difficult to understand in term of picturing in one's mind what you have to do. I also found this video on the 7 key points of storytelling and I found from the get go that this process is much easier to picture in one's mind what to do first. That is to start at the end.  Figure out what is the message you want to give or end up being, weather it is that they share your story or click on a link. I reminded me of what i saw in a documentary about movie filming, movies are almost never filmed in sequence they almost always film the end and work their way back. Maybe it has something to do with setting a goal for yourself, if you know where you are going it is easier to find your way.