In our culture we use and are exposed to stories all the time, in lots of different forms: personal stories told privately to share experience with one another; stories told through the media to entertain, educate, persuade; stories about individuals that tell universal truths about human experience.
In keeping with the Edinburgh backdrop for this year’s Conference, MacBeth provides inspiration for our story “Foul Whisperings”. The story is told on video and through the e-mails of our OD professional Alison Banks.
From Wednesday 1st October you’ll be able to access a weekly episode of this story here. First read some background information. Then watch the video and read Alison’s account of events. Finally, look at the week’s narrative focus which raises some questions for you to consider.
All feedback can be posted here in the blog or, if you prefer, sent directly to me at Forum Interactive (esther@foruminteractive.co.uk).
Esther Walker, Forum Interactive
For me I really noticed the differences. I like the more dramatic and heightened approach BUT I need to get used to it.
An audience needs some time to get used to it too.
Alison naturalistic style perhaps too much like we speak everyday and we may well miss out on some of the detail. I was really used to it but perhaps too much so.
Time will tell as we move through the episodes and my view may well change.
I guess that both the dramatic and the naturalistic approaches have their place and both seem appropriate in the circumstances in which they have been portrayed in this context. It would have been interesting to see the approaches switched to the other context, but one can imagine…
I must be a sensitive soul but when I hear or see swearing in a development context it leaves me cold and puts me in the wrong frame of mind. As it happens I choose not to swear, although I know that for others it is part of their every-day language. However, if it doesn’t add anything to the development context (and I don’t believe that it did here) then I would prefer it was left out. I remember making the same point in an english literature class after reading Kes many, many years ago. It seems that age and experience haven’t changed me in that respect!