"Therefore" & "But"...No "And Then"

Another great video essay on story structure from Tony Zhou at Every Frame a Painting


In just over 4 minutes, learn the common storytelling rule shared by South Park and F for Fake.

Neuroscience & Narrative

Here's a short discussion on narrative from Indiwire. Darren Aronofsky discusses "storytelling, myth and how human brains perceive these events."

"Best of Narrative, 2013"

Check out these audio docs, videos and multimedia stories culled together by neiman storyboard.  Plenty of good examples of narrative journalism.  Here's one example:

Ira Glass On Storytelling

Ira Glass, host and executive producer of public radio's This American Life describes the building blocks of storytelling.

In this clip Glass discusses using anecdotes and raising questions within them to keep an audience engaged. He adds that stories also need a moment of reflection or in other words, "Here's why the hell you're listening to this story."