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yarg28
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 Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 8:52 pm Post subject: looking for great storytelling examples |
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I'm trying to work on my storytelling skills and I'm looking for some great clips to study. The scene in jaws where quint talks about the sharks eating people for example.
https://youtu.be/u9S41Kplsbs
What are some of your favorite?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:40 am Post subject: Paul Scofield |
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Like Paul Scofield a lot as a narrator (story teller).
One of my favorites is the radio drama, The Silver Chair where Scofield narrates. Can't find it on the internet but here is a short sample from another series. It starts at 3:11 and Scofield speaks until 3:49. There you will hear Scofield as a narrator - a master storyteller.
https://youtu.be/k7_pGSVkvG0?t=3m11s
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richvoice
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: looking for great storytelling examples |
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| yarg28 wrote: | | I'm trying to work on my storytelling skills and I'm looking for some great clips to study. The scene in jaws where quint talks about the sharks eating people for example. |
I can't count the number of times I've put in my Jaws DVD and gone directly to that scene.
A couple of other movie scene favorites of mine are more monologues than storytelling, both in True Romance: Dennis Hopper's explanation to Christopher Walken of why Sicilians have dark skin, and James Gandolfini's description of the first time he killed someone. I think they're chapters 15 and 21, but I don't have my DVD handy to check. So, more monologues, but sort of storytelling, at least in Hopper's case.
There's gotta be a good storytelling scene in American Beauty, too, but I can't think of one.
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yarg28
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thanks guys!
and monologues are fine. |
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Have you seen Christmas Story?
Google Jean Shepherd and feast on some of the videos that you find.
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Rick Riley
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:51 am Post subject: Re: looking for great storytelling examples |
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| yarg28 wrote: | | I'm trying to work on my storytelling skills and I'm looking for some great clips to study. The scene in jaws where quint talks about the sharks eating people for example. |
The only problem with that scene is you have to be drunk to do it. (allegedly he was) and it most likely wouldn't transfer to 'just' audio as the look in his eyes while his lips barely moved was what sold it. It's some of the best acting movies have ever seen. But it was the total package. Flawless.
It depends on what type of story you're trying to tell. I assume you're narrating. I’ve always loved Edward Everett Horton. Look at some of the old Fractured Fairy Tales from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Very cartoony, very descriptive in a bedtime story way. Narration has to fit the scene. I do a lot of football narration. With NFL Films, which by many including me, is considered the benchmark in sports production, they construct the scene and the writing extremely well. Slow motion with minimalist script makes for a very impactful presentation. John Facenda was the epitome of NFL narration. I’ve done a good bit of work for NFL Films, and when I first read the scripts, Facenda’s voice is the one I’m hearing in my head. Some scenes are dramatic, some are whimsical. I did stories this year on the tallest player in the NFL. Whimsical. Rob Gronkowski. Whimsical AND dramatic. NFL’s Best Games of 2015. Totally dramatic. I also work for the Minnesota Vikings and we do a half hour documentary each week called ‘Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron’. And their style of writing is totally different. While NFL Films pretty much lets the picture tell the story with sparse dramatization by the narrator, I’m pretty much telling the whole story punctuated by a few clips with Beyond the Gridiron, and it’s a whole different style of narration.
IMO, you need to focus on the style you’re going after rather than just story tellers. Sometimes corporate stories will cite narration by Jeff Bridges as an example. He’s a good narrator / story teller. Yet so is Donald Sutherland in a completely different way. And IMO, Will Lyman is one of the best. He and Peter Coyote are tops.
Hope that helps. Each project requires a different type of storytelling. And a narrator is always below screen, looking up with the audience, subtly putting the pieces together for them. It’s an art. And I find it to be an art that’s a lot of fun.
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Those of us who hail from the Sunbelt have a struggle when it comes to wrapping our arms around story telling. We have this genre of story telling that comes from The Cajun Cook, Andy Griffith, Jerry Clower and others. It is all comedy focused. So to "channel" Jean Shepherd, the voice from Jaws and other tends to put us emotionally out on the window ledge trying to inch along 13 stories up in the air.... trying not to look down at the street below.
But I love it!!!! I would add Ira Glass from NPR to the list of examples. |
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yarg28
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| thanks for the replies. good stuff. |
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