I came across the following YouTube video the other day while checking out Boing Boing (one of my favorite sources of interesting and provocative stuff).
Fascinating in its own right, but I keep coming back to it and thinking what it also has to say about the world we work in. Some thoughts:
- Don’t let the scenery distract you from the action
- Focus on a powerful story to lead your audience’s attention where you want it to go
- Anchor your stories in people and their interaction
What do you think?
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=84fe7ac4-f72a-4e23-857a-e0939615e6fb)
{ 1 } Comments
i think you are right that when all of story telling can be simulated — in an entirely plastic reality, the best way to get the audience to stay with you is to tell the story of people. it has always been true.
“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate,
An haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate,
Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore…”
The opening lines of The Aeneid by Virgil
http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.1.i.html
{ 1 } Trackback
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jim McGee. Jim McGee said: From McGee's Musings Chromakey and knowledge work http://goo.gl/fb/4p7b [...]
Post a Comment