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Creative storytelling and drama

Katy Christian Community Church Feb 6, 2011. Creative storytelling and drama. Moves stories from “just words” to something seen and experienced (5 senses). Uses audience imagination to “amplify” the story. Helps storyteller/teacher with Bible study and preparation.

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Creative storytelling and drama

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  1. Katy Christian Community Church Feb 6, 2011 Creative storytelling and drama

  2. Moves stories from “just words” to something seen and experienced (5 senses). Uses audience imagination to “amplify” the story. Helps storyteller/teacher with Bible study and preparation. Note: About 1/3 of Jesus’ teaching was in story form (parables). Why Storytelling?

  3. Jerry Clower – “A New Bull”

  4. “Making Scripture Come Alive” Dramatic Scripture Reading

  5. Dramatic Scripture reading • Just empathizing with the characters can help you understand the meaning of Scripture! • Try to understand characters’ emotions, backgrounds, etc. • Visualize the scene in your head. • Read with emotion and expression.

  6. Dramatic Scripture reading “If you see the action of the story, so will your listeners. If you don’t see it, they won’t either.”

  7. Dramatic Scripture reading Practice Time!

  8. Scripture reading in public • Tape an enlarged copy of the passage in your Bible. • Pre-read through the passage and mark/highlight to give yourself cues. • Use a natural voice, but vary your tone, volume, pitch to bring out the meaning of the text. • Read one sentence at a time: Fix the words in your mind, see the scene, and recite facing the audience.

  9. See the characters, setting, and action: Envision a movie screen on the back wall just over the heads of the audience. • Pick a spot for each character/group and look there when describing their part. • For dialog: “zoom in” on the speakers by placing them in the center of the screen. Seeing the scene

  10. “Going Off Script” Scripture Storytelling

  11. Dig into your Bible story. Try to get to know your characters well: Who? When? Where? Why? How? Identify the main point/theme of the story. Write out your story for a 1-5 minute presentation. Don’t be afraid to leave out some details and fill in others – as long as they are logical and support your theme. Getting started

  12. All stories have a basic three part structure: • Beginning: Introduces characters, setting. Use lots of sensory images to build the setting. (Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell) • Middle: Main character is in height of conflict. Longest section. Use lots of action, dialog, and details. • End: Conflict is resolved, lesson learned. End with a “lesson line” that reinforces theme of story. Structuring your story *Look for “turning points” in the Bible story that mark new sections: i.e. When David decides to fight Goliath (1 Samuel 17:32)

  13. “She came into the big room.” / “She glided into the ballroom.” “The king was evil.” / “The king reeked of cruelty.” SHOW, DON’T TELL. Make every word add something to the story. Focus on nouns and verbs: (“Jesus wept.”) Avoid “be/is/was.” Limit modifiers (adjectives, adverbs, prepositions), avoid weak ones. (“amazing”, “great”, “bad”, “big”) Hint: Use a thesaurus to find alternative words. Using powerful words

  14. “In August, I want to watch the Perseid meteor shower, but when the sun comes up, I can’t see the meteors. Sometimes I can see the moon faintly moving across the sky, though. But the only star I can see then is the sun, constantly shining in the sky and giving us light and warmth. Really, the sun is our only light. It’s our only source of power, but isn’t it ironic that we can’t look at it or we will be blinded?” Showing vs. Telling (Telling)

  15. “In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re out there showering down, committing hara-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps at last into the ocean. But at dawn what looks like a blue dome clamps down over me like a lid on a pot. The stars and planets could smash and I’d never know. Only a piece of ashen moon occasionally climbs up or down the inside of the dome, and our local star without surcease explodes on our heads. We have really only that one light, one source for all our power, and yet we must turn away from it by universal decree. Nobody here on the planet seems aware of this strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk about carefully averting our faces, this way and that, lest our eyes be blasted forever.”** Showing vs. Telling (showing)

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