The Elements of Good Storytelling

Setting Character

- Place of story - Create character who interests you

- Props of story - Include contradictions in character
- Set loose the characters in the making
story - Give your character room for
potential of change
- Character’s appearance
Plot
- Character’s dialogue

- Grow out of character’s choice - Character’s action

- 3 step process of plot

o Set up – introduce character,
beginning of the story,
Backstory
present problem
o Build up – events challenge - History of the main item in the

character story

o Pay-off – rewards for the - Crucially affects story progress

character - Significant consequences of story

depend on backstory
- Backstory can continues to
accumulate as a story charges
Detail ahead

- Interact with other elements in

storytelling
- Every elements in story telling
need to be give in details
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Elements of good storytelling

18. Find story that interest you

17. Read several times and notice the characters and
progression of events
16. Look how story begin
15. Find elements that connect you to the story
14. Find the conflict, the tension of the story
13. Characters you expect audience identify
12. Know how to start and end the story
11. Knows personal strengths
10. Events and details to move the story along
9. Visualise the story
8. Characters behavior towards another
7. Use repetitive element
6. Posture during storytelling
5. Use rhythm and pacing
4. Punctuate the story with gesture
3. Pause slightly at the end of story
2. Speak clearly
1. Breathe deeply. Relax and enjoy telling the story
 Repetition

Repeat phrase or theme to

allows your audience to get
involved
Exaggeration Voices

Make the story sounds big Tell the story using different
although it is not that big. voices in order to
differentiate the characters in
the story

Effective storytelling elements

Clear Beginning, Middle Sound Effects

and End
Use props to make sound
Do not let the story drag. effect for your story
Make sure it has a clear
beginning, middle and end

Setting

Create proper atmosphere

for your story to make your
story seems special
Twelve Ancient Storytelling Elements You
Can Use to Attract and Hold Your Readers

12. Ordinary world

11. Call to adventure

10. Refusal of the call

9. Meeting the mentor

8. Crossing the first threshold

7. Tests, Allies, Enemies

6. Approach to the inmost cave

5. Supreme ordeal

4. The seizing of the sword

3. The road back

2. Resurrection

1. Return with the Elixir

Have a great opening

Catch viewers heart with things

they unexpected, unusual for them,
Dive below the surface and stay
emotional. Lead them to be curious
there
of the story and be interested.
Try to ask yourself questions to
reveal a good story.

The elements of
storytelling

Be a good team player

Ask someone near you for advice

or ideas. Listen to what they have
to say. Share your own thought
Construct a story arc, and don’t
also.
ruin it with a weak ending

Make an ending that will sure make

your audience felt that it was a new
discovery, a feeling of satisfaction,
a wonder but somehow regretting
that the story already end, wishing
that it still going on.