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A Perfect Structure in 28 Seconds

21.04.2020 Filed in: Perspective written by: Nigel Levy

In just 28 seconds this TV commercial for The Guardian - Point of View - brilliantly manages to include all four points of view necessary to tell a complete story. The reason is the power of perspective in storytelling.

The Siren Song of a Complete Story

01.05.2020 Filed in: Perspective

Most of us know the story of the Sirens; how Odysseus had his sailors block their own ears with wax so they would row on past, deaf to the song and safe from the rocks, while he had himself lashed to the ship’s mast so that he alone could hear it and live. But what was it that had lured so many other sailors onto the rocks?

Coronavirus as a Pandemic Story

21.04.2020 Filed in: Genre |Perspective

The coronavirus is in all our thoughts, and on a practical level, many of us are thinking how to tell its story - whether in a documentary, a news item or even in matters of public policy.