From the radio, we can abstract the two main characters of a good story. First, the sequence of actions. You can "grab" your audience by making them feel like your story is something which is still taking place, at least to them who have no idea of the consequence. You take advantage of the audience's curiosity and make the best use of it by arranging suspense. " What on earth is going on?" is the first commend you ever want to achieve from your listeners. Another thing of a successful story is the "reflection", the answers to all the questions you have laid out. You can present them all at once to provide kind of a mind-blowing/astonishing ending, or you can unveil them each at a time with some new questions arisen to make the audience feel like drifting in the turbulent current created by you. They have no escape but riding with your fast-moving story.
One example I want to present is a famous application currently, called Vine. It is amazing because all the users can only post a 6 second video each time. How could you tell a whole story only in 6 seconds and still be attractive? First of all, the story is presented in time sequence, which is apparent because they are mini videos with no room for flashback. Second, the scene changes rapidly with reasonable logic. Questions rise whenever there are changes in the scene. Some of the answers you can find at the end of the video, some of them can be found in the title. In my opinion,these 6-second mini video posts succeed because of those dramatic changes within only seconds makes people want to watch again and again without being bored.
I think I would like to talk more about why we all have to be good story tellers in the next blog. Perhaps, I could also write a story to see how well I do except for all these theoretical things.
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