Storytelling - free course from Skillbox, training, Date: November 29, 2023.

Storytelling as a tool
Learn why storytelling is a powerful tool for persuasion and audience engagement. Get acquainted with examples of storytelling in painting, literature, cinema, photography and animation.

How to start writing
Learn to relax and write freely. You will understand how to use storytelling in different areas of life. Explore yourself and the world around you, come up with creative rituals for inspiration.

The basics of creating a story. Part 1
Learn the basics of reader psychology. Learn to work with archetypes and sources. You will practice creating a composition and build a dramatic structure of the text.

The basics of creating a story. Part 2
You will figure out who the hero is and learn to reveal his character. You will understand how to tell a story in dialogue and monologue. You can use details to reveal the characters' characters.

Work in different formats: fiction, non-fiction, blog
You will understand how to adapt different genres to the formats you need.

How to hook a reader
Learn to work with images and create dynamic scenes. You will understand how to create vivid metaphors.

Style, editing and work with text
Find out what the author's style is and find yours. Learn to work with composition and edit text.

Bonus module: “Games with text”
Get acquainted with examples of mixing genres and new formats. Find out what a versegram is. You will understand how the relationship between text and visuals works.

Story Creation Methods
Improve your creativity and learn to come up with stories using special creative techniques. You will understand how to remove internal restrictions..

Main character
You will see what archetypes of heroes are found in fairy tales, literature and cinema. Learn how to create a hero and anti-hero for your story. You will understand how to make them expressive and memorable.

World in history
Learn to think through the world in which the story develops. Find out how its rules move the heroes forward. Make a storyboard for two concepts.

Visual image
You will be able to create visual images and understand how to enhance them using metaphor and other artistic techniques. Create your own visual style for animation or comics.

Visual style
You will understand what a visual style consists of and how to find your own. Get acquainted with the techniques of masters of cinema and painting.

Facial expressions and gestures
Master a set of simple practices for non-verbal communication and learn how to perform exercises to develop facial plasticity.

Plastic surgery of the face and body
Body language is an important part of performance. You will learn self-control, know what pose to take on stage or in front of the camera, and attract the audience's attention through gestures.

Speech production
Improve your diction, get rid of filler words and interjections, make your speech more expressive and understandable for listeners.

Managing listener attention
You will learn how to structure a speech and choose a rhythm to produce the desired effect on the audience. Learn to respond correctly to remarks from the audience.

Creative project
You will come up with a visual story, choose a suitable form for it - a photo, animation, a series of illustrations, a comic book or a short film. You will select a visual, as designers do, and implement it in your project.

Video
You will write a script for the video, select a visual image and film your story.