Oral Storytelling for Beginners
What we are looking for when telling a story
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: What we are looking for when telling a story
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to explain what we are looking for when narrating a story orally. Progressively, I will tell you five key aspects to understand it.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: What we are looking for when telling a story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oral Storytelling for Beginners. Discover the art of storytelling and learn techniques to adapt stories to spoken word, translate them to stage, and build a connection with any audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“What we are looking for when telling a story What are we looking for when telling a story? We can think of a progressive response, with five steps that I am going to tell you now. The first thing is that the story is understood and this has two meanings. On the one hand, that the structure can be followed, that whoever is listening does not stay thinking "I did not understand why this character appeared or why it was resolved like this", let it be understood. That's why it was so important As we saw in a previous lesson, the structure, that the story follows a path and can be understood, bu...”
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Course summary for: Oral Storytelling for Beginners
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Children's Literature, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling
Andrés Montero
A course by Andrés Montero
Andrés Montero is a writer and storyteller from Santiago de Chile. In 2012, he cofounded the company La Matrioska, with which he has put on performances, workshops, and lectures on oral storytelling throughout Chile and in more than ten countries across America and Europe. Every year La Matrioska hosts the International Festival of Oral Narration, ChileCuentos, and in 2022 premiered the television program Los Cuenteros.
As a writer, he has published the novels La muerte viene estilando, Taguada, and Tony Ninguno, which was awarded the Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska. He has also published children's books such as Alguien toca la puerta: Leyendas chilenas and an essay entitled Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI. In general, all his projects aim to explore the relationship between literature and orality.
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