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Narrating a story in PAR format

What are we going to learn?

It stands for Problem, Action, and Result.

(on right side of present scene adding text “Use of PAR format”

It could be your friends or parents or your interviewers in a job interview.

Can we use the PAR format of storytelling to answer the question?

Let's figure it out in this tutorial.

Introduce a thought bubble to the boy’s image and in the thought bubble show

Let's understand them one by one

The first step in storytelling is to know who you are telling the story to.

We call them the target audience.

Show friends and in the thought bubble have our young protagonist joyfully riding a cycle or spinning a top

Do your friends want to hear about an event that got you into trouble as a kid?

Or

Or

If the question is not entirely clear to you, ask for clarifications.

Make a gender neutral image with a thinking gesture. The thought bubble should have a question mark.

Do you remember who that person is and the information they were looking for?

You now know what a target audience is.

Keep in mind target audience can be a person or a group of people.

Show stories as text

Then transition the text to a collage of images like a child playing with friends, a young person walking into a college, talking in front of an audience

The third step is to think about what you want to say.

Stories are a great way to connect

Remember, this is about saying in a way that connects with the target audience.

They are nothing but experiences.

They can be your own experiences or the experiences of others.

Showing a young woman, Smitha, sitting in front of an interview panel.

Show interviewers asking questions to her.

How to structure and present your experience in the PAR format.

For that, I’m going to tell you about a final year college student, Smitha. She is attending her job interview.

In the interview the interviewers tell her that the role requires multitasking.

They want her to share her experience of handling multiple tasks at the same time.

They wanted to know what challenges she faced.

How she handled them

And if she managed to complete the tasks.

Who is the target audience: My interviewers

What information are they looking for from me:

They want to know if I have the ability to multitask. They want to know how I handled challenges I facedThey also want to know if I managed to complete my tasks.

There are arc lights and curtains behind her on the left side.

Both my project work and drama practice needed my time.

For the project work, I had to know my subject very well.

To play the lead character in the drama, I had to memorize my dialogues.

I had to work on my voice modulation and body language

What if my project team meetings clash with my drama rehearsals?

Divide illustration into four parts as per smitha’s schedule.

Show her handling both the drama and the project efficiently.

Smitha on whatsapp and phone communicating to her teams.

I created a detailed to-do-task list, outlining specific activities for each day.

I allocated time slots for various activities.

I informed both my project mates and drama team about my commitments.

I made it clear to my project mates that my drama practice would get over by 8pm. I was available for project-related tasks after that.

This ensured that my project meetings did not clash with my rehearsals.

Smitha is submitting the project with team

Drama rehearsal with team

My teammates and I submitted the project on time.

During the culturals, my performance in the drama was highly appreciated by the audience

Do you think Smitha’s story convinced her interviewers about her multitasking ability?

What smita told her interviewers is available as a script. You can access it by opening the file smita-script.txt available in the code file link.

Can we show the summary pictorially?

The first step:

You need to know who you are telling your story to.

The second step:

You need to understand what information they are looking for.

The third step:

You need to think about the experience you want to share.

The fourth step:

Your experience must communicate the information they are looking for.

Assignment

I want you to tell your friends your experience of performing two tasks. Like Smitha, you must have worked on both the tasks at the same time. Use PAR format of storytelling to tell your story.

After you narrate your story, ask them what they thought about your presentation.

The more often you practice, you will get better at storytelling.

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Acknowledgement

by the Ministry of Education(MoE), Govt of India.

IIT Bombay

Hope you enjoyed learning.