Story Telling- Unit 4 work

Story telling

What worked?- With our work on storytelling I found it worked best when we told them personally like telling a friend. It worked best like this I felt because it felt more personal like you were letting someone into a secret which made the story more exciting.

What didn’t work?- With story telling it is hard to pin point what didn’t work exactly as story’s are open to interpretation of the story teller him or herself but I personally found it didn’t work when they didn’t really know where the story was going. If a story teller knows exactly what’s happening or even makes it up with conviction an audience will be more involved and wanting to listen to it.

Who/what- I watched a YouTube video of Quizoola in a devised/improvised performance. This performance consisted of two actors on stage at a time having a chat one at a time being asked questions which were different every time and from these rand9om questions stories were made and told. There were many types of questions being answered but I found they asked the more comical first then they would break a wall to the more serious grounded questions. These stories where completely random and I don’t know if they were made up (I presume not) but they were personal and that’s what made the performance so engaging for me. The personal element of stories is something we aimed to show in our performance knowing that personal stories ground a performance and bring in the reality of it.

How- To make our story’s so they fitted to Beowulf we used both personal and original linking them into the story of Beowulf as we went along. Like the company Quizoola and their performance we went for the more comical approach then grounding it with a serious ‘this is important’ story towards the end taking the audience on a journey. We also spoke to the audience a lot to communicate these emotions and asking them how they feel about the situations.