TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL co-organized

In this is a master class you’ll learn:

1. How to make your characters come alive (relate with audience)

2. Examples of vivid movie or novel characters (activity)

3. Highlight the feelings, challenge and actions in detail

4. How to end a story

5. How to tie your story back to your message

NB: Recommended lowest level of English: Intermediate

ADVANCED STORYTELLING SKILLS AVAILABLE, BUT NOT COVERED IN THESE TWO MASTER CLASSES:

*How to Choose your story and characters

*Using dialog, vs. narration vs. step-out

*Putting audience into scene

*Creating suspense and cliffhangers

*Including surprises and setbacks

*Having villain characters

*Character transformation

*Conflict escalation

*audience chorus

*Body motion

*Learning to critique and test your own story

*5 storytelling tips: get to dialog quickly enough, use spaces and faces between lines of dialog, don't pre-ramble, condense to connect, place audience members inside scene, explore your dark moments for stories, verbalizing audience's thoughts in dialogs (stem, name, line)