ChANGE

CONNECTING WITH YOUR STORY

• Unflinching honesty: '' this value matters to me and thus to others; that doesn't.''
• Pursuit of truth.
• YOU / what you know / your life experience: ''what do you care?''
• Your emotional response: what you feel, not what you're suppose to feel.
• The big changes you've seen: emotional + intellectual process (you need both).

VALUE - CHARGE INTERCHARGE

McKee ''Story''

story values are the universal qualities of human experience that may shift from positive to negative, or negative to positive.

EXAMPLES

• VALUES (Love, life, friendship, company, protection, family, togetherness, freedom, peace of mind, etc.)

• These values are manifested in ''material'' values such as marriage/divorce, going to the event together, uncovering a crime, etc. But you need to understand and inner value within the material to be able to assess it's true worth in the story.
• Avoid superficial or non-essential values (to the character).

VALUE - CHARGE INTERCHARGE AND ARC

• Story structure

+ to -
- to +

MY PROJECT

Change project was one of the most emotional for me as I was shooting my homeland and my family.
Took some snaps when I was there, but the main part is my project.

Vilnius

Family

Early spring

Brainstorm

Change:

• your personality
• your life
• your feelings
• the world 
• the people
• the rules

Important values - love, friendship

Changes is - to + or + to -.

We live in the world shaped by stories. Narrative helps define what is normal and what is illegitimate , as well as the limits of what is politically possible. All power relations have such a narrative component.

That is what makes a story powerful is not necessarily facts, but how the story creates meaning in the hearts and minds of the listeners. 

The currency of story is not truth, but meaning.

Metaphor of life: all kids have to have their homes and discover their own life, themself, their goals and ambitions.

Narrative film describing how ONE major story value's charge turns into it's opposite.

Meaning: a revolution in values from positive to negative or negative to positive with or without irony - a value swing at maximum charge that's absolute and irreversible. The meaning of that charge moves the heart of the audience.

Progression build by moving dynamically between the positive and negative charges of the values at stake in the story.

Storyboard

1. Daughter and mother living in poor country.

2. Daughter is 25 and she need to move from family and earn her own money.

3. But in her country there is no jobs and economic situation is very bad.

4. She is sad that she needs to leave her family and the whole country.

5. She works in a factory with a hope to get a better job.

My final outcomes can find on Youtube:

http://youtu.be/HW23FCdSwLw

http://youtu.be/HW23FCdSwLw