What do BBP and the Avatar movie have in common?

At the core of any story, including Hollywood films, are elements you can use to make your own presentations more effective.

Watch the recording of this BBP weekly workshop recorded April 16, 2010, and you'll learn:

  • How stories are built from familiar building blocks
  • How you can create dramatic tension at the start of your own story
  • How your initial story idea is likely to change through an iterative process

BBP members Richard and Pam volunteered their presentation topics during the session, covering an instructional presentation for a golf-related product and a persuasive presentation seeking investment from donors for a non-profit.

>>>To launch the recording of this workshop, click this link

Video Timeline (Total Time 00:57:37)

Time

Activity

Detail

0:00:00

Introduction

Taking a step back and looking at story in terms of story telling that's done in popular culture around us, specifically as they are told through movies, using Avatar (the most popular movie of all time) as the example

00:01:42 -
 Robert McKee's book "Story" - he's a well known screen writing coach - screenwriters & presenters are doing something similar: taking a script to present a visual story
00:03:10 -
 What can we learn from film and television and stories being told around us in terms of story structure?
00:06:00 - Blending fictional story structure with logic and data
00:08:10 - In any story structures there are essential elements and structure that can be applied and modified in many ways
00:11:00 - Basic recontruction of the Avatar movie story structure
00:15:45 - Looking at the Avatar movie and what parts of it fill in the BBP story template
00:16:10 - Using the BBP visual tool: the Storyboard sketchpad
00:18:55 - Introducing the alternate BBP brainstorming tool, the 11x17 poster sized sketch tool that uses post it notes (where you can shift them around as your brainstorm)
00:21:10 - Richard - first volunteer to talk about his presentation at a top level using the core elements of building a non-fiction story and applying to his topic
00:33:30 - Reviewing the core structure elements of Richard's presentation on the Storyboard sketchpad
00:35:10 -
 Pam - 2nd volunteer - gearing her presentation towards funders & donors
00:54:15 -
 Reviewing Pam's Storyboard sketchpad
00:56:30 Wrap Up Pulling out tension and conflict with unique content and taking presentation stories into more interesting and effective space, hopefully with blockbuster results!
00:57:37 End -



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