The Art of Storytelling for Freelancers and Creators
Building Tension
A course by Sun Yi , Storyteller and Founder of Night Owls
Develop your hero’s journey and learn to sell your ideas by exploring authentic storytelling techniques that resonate with your audience
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About the video: Building Tension
Overview
“Building tension is a critical part of crafting a story. In this lesson, I'll go over some techniques to keep your audience on the edge of their seats.”
In this video lesson Sun Yi addresses the topic: Building Tension, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Storytelling for Freelancers and Creators. Develop your hero’s journey and learn to sell your ideas by exploring authentic storytelling techniques that resonate with your audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“Building Tension We just talked about the key to great storytelling. In this lesson, let's go into how you can build tension. First, let's talk about the story arc. Take a look at this graphic here. It shows you the overall story arc. It follows the typical setup, conflict, and resolution story arc. Here, as it's going up, you're raising a question, and at the end, when it comes down, you're answering that question. The main question is, where is this going? Throughout the whole story, you want people saying, "Where is this going?" In the end, it's like, "Oh, that's what happened." Now take...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Storytelling for Freelancers and Creators
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Category
Marketing & Business, Writing -
Areas
Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Marketing, Storytelling
Sun Yi is the founder of Night Owls, an award-winning digital agency based in New York City. After studying engineering at Binghamton University in 2001, Sun started working as a web designer and developer. Half a decade later, Sun became the lead web designer at the New York Film Academy, and subsequently studied filmmaking at the academy, which paved the way for the future of his career in storytelling.
In 2008, Sun became the COO and Creative Director at Wevio, and just two years later, started Night Owls. Through his agency, Sun has worked with Fortune 500 Companies brands such as Seiko, American Red Cross, Columbia University, Spotify, Swell Bottle, and more. At Night Owls, their aim is to develop the visual identity of a brand through storytelling. In 2020, Sun became part of the coveted Forbes Agency Council.
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