Before Lance Weiler did his presentation, he had all the audience write down on an index card a storytelling technique he uses on his own projects. Including a Sherlock Holmes project, he did at the Lincoln Center. The purpose of this technique is to help the creator/s of a project find purpose in a project and what is the core value of it. For example:
He paired the audience. Each person told a story and was asked why this story was important to them. As they told the story and ended their story, the person listening would ask why a total of three times. This technique helped the person telling the story to reflect on why this story was important and helped the listener understand why this story was interesting or important to listen to.
I think as a creator of our art, we should ask ourselves why are we doing this and why is it important to us. When we understand this information ourselves through self-reflection, we are able to create something that people will also understand. I think a lot of time we start working on a project and jump right into it without really understanding why we doing it. We have an idea, but sometimes it might be hard to get the messaged across if we ourselves don’t really understand why we are doing it.
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http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2016/03/23/baruch-college-performing-arts-center-presents-immersive-worlds-science-narrative-and-the-arts/
Immersive Worlds April 7, 2016
Lance Whiler
Story Telling
One of the 18 people who changed Hollywood
writer and director
allows people to interact with a project
“Outside the box”
the story is the same, it’s the telling of the story that is changing
Doyle –
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Project at Lincoln Center
Human Experience is important
the trace
1. granting agency
2.thematic frame
3.social movement
Sam Labs
Voodoo Monkey –
Rotary Phone that had a “GPS” that had a point where it was active
GIF HUB
Sherlock Homes
@columbiaDSL
Body Mind Change
POD Wants to Know You
Generating personal experience and how can ” people connect new emergent opportunities” People go through an Emotional and artificial intelligence installation and upon the different
LIKA
toy for kids
read data and collected data around the world
kids teach her things
teaching STEM
Welcome to an Experiment in Scarcity & abundance