VIDEO INFORMATION
(excerpts
from posts to Storytell)
1) VIDEO, SAMPLES - Making and Effectiveness
Query: Anyone have tips, hints or resources for putting together a videotape/DVD work sample?
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Response: I've heard the conventional wisdom that only the first few minutes will count - but also the opposite. I don't know how widespread this view is, but the owner of one theatre we play every year in our home town of Darmstadt (21st Nov. is the night!) told me once that he never pays much attention to samples - and he is sent a LOT by cabaret artists. His line is that anyone can edit out the highlights to present themselves as great. However, he does look closely at full-length videos and CDs; especially of live performances. These give him the chance to see what artists can really do. He collects everything sent to him and goes through them all during holidays. Then he gets in touch. His is a very successful theatre!
Richard M. Germany 11/18/03
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2) Here's the YouTube site that Tim Ereneta created last summer (2006). Some of the stories/storytellers are rated for quality. You can read Tim's comments below regarding quality, use of profanity, etc.
You can hear/see both Sean Buvala and Tim Ereneta from Storytell, as well as these other tellers:
• A Star Story (4:10)
• Baha'i - Mark Williams - Belize City storyteller (3:56)
• Phillywootia's Story Teller (9:12)
• Chechen Folk Tale Narrated by 4 yr old Marsho (2:21)
• Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Interview (5;14)
• Adora Svitak tells and writes story at Stony Brook (4:38)
• Simon Brooks Storyteller (8:12)
• Clare Murphy, Storyteller (8:20)
• Rab Swannock Fulton Storyteling (9:05)
• Imogen Heap Storytelling (3:37)
• NBC Page at Late Night With Conan O'Brien (8:32)
• My Date With Destiny! (7:57)
• Simon Brooks Storyteller (7:46)
• Children's Story, 1-14-2207 (6:49)
• Mabela The Clever (5:16)
• How Beetle got its Coat (3:33)
• The Hare & The Tortoise in American Sign Language (2:42)
• Irish Tales (4:35)
• The Fiery Steed (9:14) (Sean Buvala)
• MWEF's Fables & Fairy Tales (8:51)
• Me and Bob Dole (5:56)
• Oswaldo Pai narra Juanjuanjuán (2:16)
• Helions Bumpstead Gramophone Co (5:08)
• Tell Me A Story About A Pumpkin (1:34)
• La Llorona (1:25)
• Shocktoberfest - Ghost stories (8:44)
• Of Blackberries and Farmer (7:08) (Sean Buvala)
• A Letter to Amy- Storytelling (5:09)
• Nasrudin's "Perfect Woman" (1:19)
• Columba sorts a marriage (3:51)
• Richard's Nephew (Part 2) (4:51)
• Laird of Love (10:12)
• The Five-Minute Video Series (5:55)
• Peacock and the Crane in the Coffee House (:49) (Sean Buvala)
• Ananzi Plays Dead (Better Quality) (7:23)
• Jennie Powell (7:17)
• Loretta Vitek Storytelling 2 (2:56)
• Woodcutter and the Trees: An Aesop Fable (:46)
• Jacks Beatnik Storytime (5:06)
• Japanese Arts In The Park (:30)
• Ryan's Brother, Killed Someone? (2:46)
• Mr. Fingers: the Clever Woman and the Turkeys (2:24) (Tim Ereneta)
• Kaidan, a ghost story in Japan (:39)
• The Rakugo Performance (1:19)
• My ghost experience (2:54)
• A Random Story (2:26)
• "Beggars Can't Be Choosers" told by Sean Buvala (5:54)
• The Fray Talking (:43)
• The Debate in Sign Language (4:17)
• The Doko (7:34)
• The Cricket (3:14)
• Traditional Storytelling (:24)
• Rose Girl (2:17)
• Gifts - A Story About My Father (5:14)
• Mr. Hand: The Barking Mouse (:49) (Tim Ereneta)
• Mr. Hand: The Chicken at the Library (1:36) (Tim Ereneta)
http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=oralstorytelling&page=1
Jackie B. 2/27/07
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3) Tim Ereneta sent this post to Storytell on 2/23/07:
YouTube continues to be one of the most popular sites on the internet, with 70 to 100 million videos downloaded per day.
As I mentioned in August, a few of the videos even feature storytelling from the likes of Sean Buvala or the Gypsy Moon tellers.
If you visit the Youtube.com site and do a search for "storytelling," you won't find much of interest. Their search functionality, while marginally improved since Google bought the site, is still pretty terrible.
Like many Web 2.0 sites, YouTube allows users to tag their own submissions, so anyone posting a video of, say, their inebriated cohorts attempting to communicate, can label it "master storyteller," and so when you search on that term you find quite a few versions of that.
Also, people who are videotaped reading books are often labelled "storytellers."
Also, there are a lot of video clips from the VH-1 television program called "Storytellers," none of which have storytelling; a lot of video clips from Jim Henson's The Storyteller series (all of which are posted without the permission of the copyright holder).
Last summer, I created a page on YouTube where you can find videos of people telling stories. Telling around the campfire, at Toastmasters, in dorm rooms, in classrooms, on stages. You can find them at: http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=oralstorytelling
Warning: some of the videos contain profanity, and there is no way to tag which ones. The folktales have clean language. But some of the video blogs/home videos, and performances from venues like The Moth, contain adult themes and language.
I've collected a total of 55 videos so far. It's not a comprehensive collection , because I have not included all the foreign language videos I've found, although you will find some examples of storytelling in Japanese, Spanish, and Chechen. I've also been choosy about videos of professional speakers and school assembly performers, because many of those videos, while they feature a storyteller, don't actually have any storytelling in them.
So drop by, check out some storytelling on YouTube.
Here are links to a few of my favorites:
Clare Murphy of Ireland shares a story she heard from Liz Weir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvlOv5yzmV0
ASL version of "The Tortoise and the Hare"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDWbv7octc
Sean Buvala tells "The Woodcutter and the Trees."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFliF75gXSw
Alas, my favorite Bill Cosby stories that I included are no longer available on YouTube.
When will your YouTube storytelling video debut?
Tim E. 2/23/07
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(This
web page updated 11/18/03; 2/18/07; 2/27/07)