Engineering Exploration Class
Storytelling
[Week 2] In this reflection, we are going to talk about the importance of storytelling, methodology used, and techniques.


What is storytelling
Storytelling is about connecting fact and experiences to create a story that is enjoyable and benefits the audiences. It does not need to be only public speaking but creating a blog or writing that benefit others can still be a storytelling.
Good storytelling requires:
Reflective, which the story clearly shown the experiences of the storyteller.
Effective, it sparks or giving motivation to the audiences.
Emotional Conditions, changing the mood of the audiences.
Techniques to be a good storyteller
Using Freytag's Pyramid

This diagram taught us about how to arrange the flow of story to be interesting from the sight of the audience. The technique is quite simple which we can see the application in various TV/Netflix series when the story begins with simple flow then it starts to build the intensity until the climax. Then, the problems that protagonists facing will be resolve and ends.
2. Practice, Practice, and Practice
Being a good storyteller is not easy, it requires a lot of efforts to achieve the goal. Therefore, telling more story or practicing by creating story flows will make improvement.
3. Plagiarism (Copy)
In the ethical perspective, copying other's story is prohibited, and it will not contribute you to be a good storyteller.