!STORYTELLING! ?WHAT WHAT?

Storytelling is the aspect of sharing with someone a story obviously. Originally, storytelling was oral mixed with gestures and emotion. Gradually, stories evolved into carvings in cave walls, and eventually writings on paper. Whether the story is true or not makes no difference. Some like to be entertained with wild, extravagant stories about fantasy worlds or action packed adventure. While others prefer more realistic stories about history, or just anything based on actual events. Either way, a lot of thought gets put into ones' storytelling. Anyone can pass down from generation to generation a tale of a hero, and how they came to be that hero. Or one can even look at it as in terms of The Bible, whereas we are all to learn from this text(which I believe pastors/preachers are storytellers of God). Many different aspects of storytelling include: what are you trying to say?, the actual story, from what point of view the story is viewed, and of course conflict.

In storytelling we would expect to see an individual, or individuals depicting events that did or did not happen for an audience. Person(s) would explain in depth conversation an incident, maybe even with visual stimulants.

Above we have Jesus Christ, our Earth's 'Savior'. He was sent to Earth by Almighty God to teach his children, us, the ways we should lead our lives. He would travel city to city preaching the ways of the Lord. He would show the peoples miracles such as vastly multiplying one fish and a loaf of bread into many of each. He would influence others through his conviction of the ways in which he would speak.

Storytelling affects people in different ways. It all depends on the opinions and views in the person, and how the person decides to take the story. 

Above we have a woman telling a story to children. Now, she may be dressed and have visual stimulants to further entertain her listeners in understanding and relating to her story. As we would understand, visual stimulants would definitely grab our attention and hopefully keep it.





Now, above we have an old show called "Reading Rainbow". Now this is how far we've come from the beginning of storytelling. While books allow 'US' to become the storyteller, even if technically the book is the story, we also have shows like this that entertain us while telling us a story. In the show we have a narrator who explains every detail to us so we better understand. The top video is only here because it is the original theme. The lower video is here to show how stories get our minds thinking. We also have the gentleman coming along with the children, who he tells stories to, representing us as viewers. I couldn't find a good enough clip to share, so I thought this would be sufficient enough. I'm sure you get the idea. Another similar show was "Wishbone", which had a little dog as our narrator/actor in the storytelling. "Wishbone" tried to teach the moral of the stories and entertain at the same time. I've also included the theme of this show below, and am sure you can grasp the idea with just that.




Work Citing:
http://allthingswildlyconsidered.blogspot.com/2009/12/storytellers-jesus-and-parables.html
http://42explore.com/story.htm
Also, The World of Theatre book.