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Storytelling for Business Video

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Learn how to apply narrative storytelling techniques to screenwriting for business video and marketing.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. What Is Story?
  • Born to tell
  • The story of story
  • It must have conflict! No, it mustn’t!
  • The three-act structure
2. What's Your Story?
  • Infotainment
  • To tell the truth
  • A world of your own
  • Introducing Globe Bank
3. Out There in the Dark
  • Who's your audience?
  • Two sides of the globe
4. Creating Your Hero
  • Main characters
  • Main character, meet brand persona
  • It lives! It lives!
  • Body and soul
  • The bad guys
  • Globe's hero ... and villains
5. Building Your Story
  • Moral: Heavenly values
  • Going up
  • Mind mapping
  • Back to the beginning
  • The conflict
  • The resolution
  • Global conflict
6. Writing Your Story
  • Choosing a genre
  • Outlining
  • Drafting
  • Chekhov's gun
Conclusion
  • Review of the final script
  • Next steps

Taught by

Roger S.H. Schulman

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