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Anna Sussman & Julia Dewitt – Essential Storytelling Techniques with Producers from Snap Judgment
5 Video lessons in HD
2h 20m of class content
Exclusive bonus content
LESSONS
1. Pitch Your Story
2. Find Your Story
3. Course Introduction
4. Build Your Story
5. The Interview
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Create Well Crafted Stories.
Storytelling is one of the most effective tools we have as a species – to connect, to persuade, and to entertain.
There are stories all around us. We watch stories on TV, read them online and share them with each other. They are the most important and powerful way we have to interpret our world.
Essential Storytelling Techniques with Producers from Snap Judgment will be of particular interest to those drawn to crafting and sharing intimate stories about the human experience.
This class will cover storytelling techniques that will help you turn an idea for an audio, radio story or podcast into a real and concise narrative.
You’ll learn about:
Finding and pitching stories
Constructing a focused, compelling story arc
Conducting interviews to craft a complete, engaging story
Building dramatic tension, narrative surprise, and higher meaning
Whether you’re a podcaster or simply curious about the mechanics of building a better story, you’ll leave this class with the tools you need to connect and engage your audience through story.
ANNA SUSSMAN
Anna Sussman is the Senior Producer and Managing Editor of NPR’s Snap Judgment, a weekly narrative radio program airing on over 300 stations nationwide. She is also the Advanced Radio lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.
Anna earned two masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in journalism and human rights and founded Backpackjournalist.org with her husband. They reported stories from 21 countries on everything from the U.S. military debacles to man-eating crocodiles. She has covered armed conflict and peace efforts from Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Uganda. She had writen and produced for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, PRI, NPR, APM, Current TV and public radio stations nationwide.
JULIA DEWITT
Julia is a senior producer at NPR’s Snap Judgment. Her work has also appeared on This American Life, 99 Percent Invisible, and Love + Radio. Before coming to radio she was a bartender, National Geographic Young Explorer, and ardent traveler. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.
