From the course: Designing a Presentation
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Outlining for story
From the course: Designing a Presentation
Outlining for story
- [Instructor] Once you have a clearer picture of your audience, you should start on the structural plans for your presentation, and an outline is a good way to start. Once you see the plan laid out in front of you, see if you can weave it together into a story because humans love stories, and they can hold attention in a way that simply presenting data may struggle to achieve. Try using a story arc to take the heroes, that would be your audience, through a journey such as something like this, for example. Begin by setting the scene where we establish all of the elements, and then, there is a problem that must be overcome. The rising action builds the tension until the crux or crisis. Oh no, how terrible! Will it or won't it? And then we hit the climax where the will it or won't it is decided. Following that, we have the resolution or denouement. That's a lovely French word that literally means "the untying of a knot." It's what gives us closure on the story, and all of that tension…
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