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A Commercial With a Perfect Structure

21.04.2020 Filed in: Perspective written by: Nigel Levy

In just 30 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, to resist the lure of their song, Odysseus blocked his ears with wax and ordered his sailors to lash him to his ship’s mast. But what was it that had lured so many 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.