Interviewing Others to Create Storytelling

How to engage others to tell great stories of techniques to be able to tell stories in your own style.

Episode 69 : Sounds of Your Life

28 April 2012
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Audio as prompts & atmosphere for your personal story! The most obvious audio you have, will be the recorded conversation and the most obvious prompts for getting that audio are questions. But there are other types of prompts, including audio. When editing a Life Story there is nothing better than music for setting the tone. [...]

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Watching Growing Up – Birth to 12 years

24 April 2012

Like a bud unfolding in time-lapse to a flower. I speak often of not only the importance of recording a retrospective of your life but also capturing a life story as it’s live. There are many ways. Here is another…

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It Started with Bill, Now for Him it’s Over

22 April 2012

Today my favourite uncle passed away. It started with Bill, …this site I’m talking about. It was after sitting with him for a week recording his humble but (for his family), interesting Life Story that motivated me to want to share these techniques with you. What his six hours of audio has given my family [...]

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Your Story Tips – Helping You Tell Your Story

20 March 2012

Quick tips for helping you with you storytelling. Now that we have so much content here at Create Your Life Story it’s easy to be overwhelmed when really it should be simple and easy. I’ve started a series of short form tips to help you record your life, one small story at a time using [...]

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Record Your Life Story on Soundcloud

9 March 2012

It’s easy to record Your Life Story on SoundCloud one story at a time. We all have stories in us. Why not record just one story from time to time using SoundCloud to help you? All the details are on the Page about how to record to SoundCloud Sequence to follow to tell a story [...]

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The Best StoryTelling Secerts

7 March 2012

Storytelling is an art for sharing your Life Master storytellers know what to do and how to tell a story. Some from an instinctive place within them and others from an understanding of the rules. If they know the rules they can share them with us. Here is master storyteller of Andrew Stanton sharing with [...]

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Episode 67 : Audio Snapshots of Your Life Story

25 February 2012
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Enhance your skill & confidence while recording your LifeStory. Getting started is often the hardest part of recording a life story and getting started isn’t all the preparation. It’s starting to record audio. Your Audio! A good place to get some motivation is with the free Quick Start Mini-Guide PDF. This useful information will help your overview [...]

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Real Time Multi-Media Journaling a Life Story

28 January 2012

In this new digital age, what does it mean to have a journal? Many people have diaries or journals to record the everyday significant and mundane aspects of their life. Then there are others who look back over their life and capture a reflective biography. Both systems primarily concern themselves with using text and language [...]

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WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong! There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you. These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that [...]

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011
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What we can learn from the professionals. I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories. From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the [...]

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011
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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy? In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested. In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid [...]

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Have you been told a Furphy?

24 October 2011

Origins of culture aren’t always understood. In Australian parlance to be told a Furphy is to be told a great yarn that probably isn’t true. All too often we use sayings, knowing the meaning but not knowing it’s origin. Telling a Furphy is a term still used today that originates in WWI but few know [...]

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Reporting Your Family Story

19 October 2011

Look at your life, like a journalist would. Have you thought about approaching your own life and therefore, your families story as a journalist would? In a recent post on CNN Mark Whitaker suggested some great ideas to help you dig deeper into your family, using some of the skills that he’s gained in 35 [...]

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Episode 60 : Remember the Stories of Community

5 October 2011
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Remember the groups of people and the stories of shared lives. We all live in different communities that change over time. Some we leave some change but all are filled with the people who we share our lives with, forming the stories of our lives. What are the stories of your communities through your life? [...]

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.   Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath. Live broadcast by Ustream I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the [...]

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Episode 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011
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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline [...]

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