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STORYTELLING BASICS
(Per BEYONCE)
Storytelling Tools are Life Tools !
When the world feels confusing — socially, morally, politically, technologically — we feel small because we can’t map it. We can’t see the whole picture. Don’t know the plot.
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That creates anxiety.
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But when you are given tools that help you understand and map what is going on with yourself, something shifts. Study these Lessons because you want to learn how to cause something to shift (and to also become a better StoryTeller !).
SONGS
THAT BECAME
MOVIES
My favorite example of a song that inspired a film: PURPLE RAIN (1984) by Prince. It was built out of the music and emotional themes of his album of the same name.
But the queen of turning songs into full stories for the screen? Dolly Parton, who has a whole Netflix Anthology Series based on her songs, as well as numerous TV and theatrical movies. Her most famous leap from song to screen? 9 to 5 — bold for its time, showing women in the business world outsmarting the very men who underestimated and mistreated them. (An updated version of that story is the current box office hit SEND HELP.)
There have been a number of movies inspired by the message of and named after popular songs – STAND BY ME and PRETTY WOMAN are iconic examples.
A three minute song can contains character, conflict, desire, stakes. In my Storytelling Basics Lessons inspired by Beyoncé songs, I encourage you in the exercises to take the vivid framework of a song — and stretch it into a fuller story from your own imagination. Maybe you just need a creative springboard to give you a running start to come up with your own original stories !
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Short On Ideas For An Original Story? Listen To A Song !