PRESENTATION ON : MYSTERY OF STORY TELLING (inspired by the Lecture of : JULLIAN FRIEDMANN )

PRESENTED BY : JALAJ GARG (IIT-GUWAHATI )

Why is Story Telling so difficult ???

Whom should the writers keep in mind while telling a story ???

Whom does STORYTELLING actually concerns ???

THE AUDIENCE

So , as A STORYTELLER , the primary relationship should be with AUDIENCE not with the CHARACTERS

These is the basic thing a WRITER should keep in mind while crafting a story !!!!

“ Its basis in the Creative understanding of Human Motivation “

Physical Reaction to a Creative Story-telling :

CLAP

SMILE LAUGH EYES DILLATE INCREASED HEART RATE

Now , how many people are there who are willing to write and be the Writers ???

ANSWER is :

BUT WHY

?

This book gives 4 basic reasons of that tendency of people ….

SHEAR EAGERTISM

IMMORTALITY

Getting back at people who put you down

And, Trying to make the world a better place

The holy trinity

WRITER

CHARACTER AUDIENCE

The holy trinity

WRITER

CHARACTER AUDIENCE

So, Now we know where to Focus !!

SCREEN –WRITING / STORY-WRITING : Is there a Formula ??????

ARISTOTLE described a formula ……….

Which is …

Beginning ,Middle and End

OR

Pity, Fear and Cathars

Suffering, Struggle and Over-coming

OR

DONE ?? NO……..

YOU NEED

MORE!!!!

What’s that now!!!!!!

SOLUTIONS ARE :

To have Accessible

characters that the Audience

will engage with .

1

Well , who

doesn’t want

“Happy Endings

”

2

To communicate with different kinds of Audiences Nicely 3

As we can take an Example , we take the difference between :

“AMERICAN MOVIES & EUROPEAN MOVIES “

AMERICAN MOVIES

EUROPEAN MOVIES

AUDIENCE’S REACTION TOWARDS :

AND WHY ? IS

IT SO …….

SIMPLE

REASON

American Movies have shorter Scenes and

thus the Audience fill in the gap .Also ,

because of this , they actively watch as

we have seen ……..

SO , ALL OF IT SHOULD BE AUDIENCE CENTRIC

Even , if it is a horror movie :p

Well , this is the impact an American Movie has

Better tools :

MUSIC

MUSIC has the power to mesmerize the crowd and get their nerves to

listen to your story

Do the way the Jazz People do…………

JAZZ people use the power of MUSIC

REJECTION

Every one faces Rejection .Even , the Greatest Writers have also faced Rejection once in their cariers

Joan Didion( a

great Writer ) ‘s Story on facing

Rejections which she has herself faces many

times.

But , this Rejection can also become Motivation if the Self-expectations and Beliefs are high. This ,in fact , has been a very strong tool for many writers who have as a fact used this to make proper amendments on their Writing &Story-telling and have come up very strong in this field later ………………………………………………..

THE CONCEPT OF REFLECTION

Who do you think the Audience actually looks at while listening to your story ???

The Story tellers may think that :

It’s them who they are looking at ….Or the Characters or any Fixture on the Stage

BUT NO

Its actually themselves they are looking at :

REFLECTIO

N

So , lastly coming back to the theme of the Story :

Its your Audience for whom you should design and tell your story .So always ,Make them like this :

So , We should get

them feel their inner

selves through our

STORY

So , finally I would like to say a :

Created by Jalaj Garg, IIT Guwahati, during an internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow.www.IIMInternship.com