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One of the essential elements of telling a good story is finding an interesting character. From his life, his experience, his context, his value and achievements, a story of struggle and hope can be narrated, with high impact, which demonstrates the contribution of the UN in this process.

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Actually having something to recount about an issue, rather than simply doing a story about, say, the launch of a report.

Having a clear sense of purpose of why you are telling the story, what impacts you want from it, and how your clearly-defined audiences will perceive it.

Weaving the story of a real person into a story about wider trends.

Making sure that the real person’s story remains relatable rather than being so extraordinary as to be inapplicable in other contexts.

Structuring according to the “hero’s tale” principle.

Ensuring the content and editing is of consistent quality throughout the story.

Keeping is short and simple.

Ensuring that the story is part of a multimedia package so that the audience can be guided to “What Now?” actions.

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-Have a strong character that will follow from beginning to end.
-Have other characters who are connected to the strong character.
-Have an introduction, a conflict and you end with a resolution. You show how the character is struggling to get somewhere.
-Have pictures to add a visual element.
-Make sure you have the right visuals ( a visual of the character and her/his surrounding)

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essential elements of telling a story
- knowing the topic
- knowing why you want to tell the story (what message to you want make stick in the audience's mind)
- what is the purpose behind this story

Elements of storytelling
- introduction, main part, conclusion
- create a bond between audience and story via emotions (in audio-visual it is images, sounds, colors)
- make the audience stick to the story because they want to learn about the end of the story (capture interest)

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1- Setting the context by providing enough (but not too much) information

2- Have a clear storyline and narrative

3- Have a clear goal/call to action from the story you’re telling

4- Consider the format/medium based on the story, the call to action and your audience

5- Ensure accessibility of the story as much as possible: languages, subtitles, sign-language

How to capture them in an audio-visual way:

1- keep the story centered around the characters (HIS)

2- use simple/relatable language (avoid technical language)

3- Capture the environment and not only characters

4- ensure it can fit different mediums if needed: YouTube, Social Media, etc.

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There should be an actual story to tell that might have an impact. And with that, a narrative involving someone who can be a led character or main piece of it. Naturally, preserving his or her dignity and not forcing anything but allowing a natural flow to it. The story cannot tell people what to think but ideally should "force" people about what to think.

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Similar to written stories, audio-visual stories need to have the 5Ws and an H. A hero, a conflict/challenge, solution/resolution. Multimedia story can be a more powerful tool to convey the voice of the hero and can elicit a stronger emotional response.

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Essential elements:
- Define a clear and powerful message
- Describe the context
- Identify people who want to share the stories / lend their voices to the story
- Structure - the climax and the conclusion are powerful

How to capture them in an audiovisual way:
- Create a coherent look that fits the narrative
- Do first person interviews
- Coherent and compelling B-Roll

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- The key message: (simple, clear, strong, evocative, relevant, focused)
- The narrative: delivered in a logical sequence (strong lead, context, conflict, climax, resolution).
- The main character(s) best suited to deliver the key message in a compelling and relatable way.
- The audience: to tailor content in a way that resonates for them.
- The format: consider what works best -  a video for example would be a great way to immerse the audience into the character's experience...

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A Good audio-visual story:

- A beginnig, middle and end
- A main character/hero/face
- A focus
-A context
-Tone

Then from a strictly technical point of view:

Content and typography.

Pairing colors.

Iconography.

Data visualization.

Using the right image.

But first and foremost, showing people's situation/context in a dignified and respected manner, do no harm with your images and know the objective behind your action before hand.

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Essential elements:

-Compelling/empathetic character and story that elicits emotion.

-Highlighting why this story is important now/significance.

-Simple, clear language.

-Call to action/what can be done.

How to capture this in an audio-visual way:

-Do first person audio or video interviews.

-Compelling footage/B roll or audio.

-Capture action as it unfolds.

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To tell a story we need a character (who), a context of place (Where) an action (why), a timeline (When) and how (How) these are the elements of a narrative. but I think there are also missing elements that we can contribute, which is not to revictimize, try to give a positive approach, seek empathy from the people who see this material.

I think that technology now allows us to access through a cell phone the possibility of telling stories, with minimal equipment.

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The essential elements of telling a story

·       The characters or agents

·       The situation or context

·       The style and tone.

How do you capture them in an audio-visual way

·       Interesting visuals that help to humanise the characters or agents

·       Interesting visuals that shows the situation or context

·       Interesting visuals that reflect the crisis/problem and its resolution

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Powerful himan interest story
Good communicator
Technical aspects
Target audience response

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I would say that the most important elements when conveying a story from an audio-visual approach is to capture very clearly the initial status quo, the main event that changes that scenario and the conclusions and consequences that arise. This can be done with different resources, such as interviews with a key character (or group) who shares their journey with us, archive material to contrast with the new material produced and a smart use of the sound, allowing for moments of vertiginous storytelling and others of silence to induce reflexion.

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Key elements in putting together an audio-visual story are the message, audience, impactful and high quality images and audio (check those mics!), allow the image and the words to convey the power of the story and voice of the subject, and as mentioned the importance of considering the background of the subject and respecting their situation. Active photos, movement in videos, clarity in audio, positive message, produced with social media in mind.

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Most important elements:
- Person of interest
- Relevance to the UN work
- Emotional aspect
- Life changing arc
How to capture in audio-visual:
- interview the subject after briefing them thoroughly about the task in hand.
- ask direct questions to the subject, making sure they clearly repeat a part of the question to appear as if they're telling the story.
- Capture the subject in their day to day environment.

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The main elements of an audio-visual story are the main hero, scene/setting, context/narrative, movement/flow and visual style to set up emotions.

To capture these, you need a clear idea of the reason you film this story, your end goal, what impact you would like to leave to your audience and what action you want them to take after seeing your content. With these in mind, you can sit all these elements to your mood board to get the best composition and impactful stories.

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The essential elements of telling a story are:
- Focus: one clear angle of the story
-Main character/hero: Center your story on a character that your audience can relate to.
-Emotion: Your story should be able to evoke emotion in your audience
-Form: A story should have a beginning, middle and end that takes your audience through a journey.

In order to translate this in audio-visual format, images for example, should have a central focus that clearly identifies the object of focus in the picture. Photos and videos should also be presented in a way that evokes emotion. In order to tell a complete story, it may help to take before and after photos/videos that can illustrate the journey of change.

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The essential elements of storytelling would include the challenge and its solution. In the context of a dignified way to tell a story that Masu clearly mentioned, I think it is essential to identify the main character of the story as the agency of change, rather than to regard the person only as a victim.

To capture the story in audio-visual way, I would portray the content as a story of a human who experiences and overcomes the challenge in partnership with the UN. So the main character would not be the UN who helps the "victims", even if that would be partly true. In my thought, the audience - let's say a father of two-years old daughter - is not necessarily interested in watching/listening how the UN helps poor people; however he could engage himself in a video of a fellow citizens in a different country where he struggles to save his baby out of poverty with the UN.

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The key message of the story will be an essential element of telling a story as the story must revolve around the key message/theme. But after listening to the lecture, it would also be important how to "approach" the story or the protagonist especially for UN stories. The stories of UN is very different from stories on newspaper or television. We should approach the story in dignifying and respectful manner to do no harm.

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Essential elements of telling a story are;

Key messages and key focus of the story on what we are going to tell.

Key characters identified for the story (heroes and people’s champions)

Research and the data to reinforce the story

How to capture them in the story;

Developing visual audio contents in line with evolving media environment

Telling the story in a dignified manner

Having a sense of authencity and responsibility in the whole process of telling the story

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Sanjeewa Warusawitharana, UNICEF Sri Lanka

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Sanjeewa Warusawitharana, UNICEF Sri Lanka

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Knowledge of the situation

Create emotional connection
A CTA = call to action
An increased awareness
Key points and essential learnings
The visuals
The connection

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I think the most important elements to storytelling are the objective, the main character and his/her journey, the work of the agency and how it impacted the main character, the audience, and the kind of action you expect out of publishing the story.

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For me the OBJECTIVE
What is your objective - call to action, information, or highlighting the programme achievement?
Measure the success of the story against the objective as per already set KPI
That it for me

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1. First and most important element of the story is "why" - the reason we are telling it. The "why" is also linked to the character of hero of the story. I personally think that the way to ensure we tell stories of the people we serve is to make them "heroes" of every story instead of "objects" like it was sometimes done - and accepted - in the past.

2. The main storyline, which will keep the story focused. This applies to photography and video.

3. The conflict or drama of the story or moment if it is a photo

4. Context allowing anyone reading the story or looking on a photograph to understand what's going on and relate

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Essential elements of telling a story are having a good hook, impactful headline, a main character who is a hero and ensuring the 5Ws are covered to engage the audience.

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The key elements in telling an audio-visual stories are:
- The message you want to put across
- The voice (from whose perspective is the story being told)
- Emotions you wish to ignite
Challenges that exist resulting in the story (context)
- Compelling headline/title
- A call to action/a solution
- Capturing the before and after (what has changed)

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The first is the storyteller - who is telling the story and in an audiovisual story, it could be a narrator, or a central character, who then becomes the hero, the point-of-view, or the human connection.

Then it's the build-up, and conflict, which could be through the interaction with other characters, elements, etc.

Then the climax, with action, music, sound effects.

In an audio visual format, any story needs to have interesting framing, arresting imagery for the visual - and the same with sound.

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The essential elements to telling a story include some type of conflict and a resolution. It also includes a hero and will evoke emotions and feelings in the person watching, listening or reading.

Capturing these components in an audio visual way is not very easy especially if you are addressing sensitive subject matters like the ones covered by UNFPA ( for example Gender Based Violence (GBV) including 🤬 and intimate partner violence  (IPV) etc). In many cases we are not allowed to show the faces of survivors so we have to find ways of telling their stories that are innovative also also maintains their dignity. Some ways that we can do this are:
1. Blurring their faces or using b-roll/cutaways to cover their faces and amending their voice
2. Using footage that are re enactments
3. Using animations
4. Use footage of the setting instead of the individual

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I agree with the opinions share by my colleagues.
A good audiovisual story needs these key elements in my opinion:
-A inspiring story that is interesting for the viewer/listener/reader
-Good audiovisual material (photo, video audio) that presents the people portrayed in the story in a dignified way.
-I think it also must have a call to action (i.e share, like, advocate, sign up for a campaign, donate...) or at least leave the viewer the feeling that the time spent in watching, reading or listening to that story was worth, that they learned something or that they want to know more about this issue.

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The main elements of storytelling for an audio visual space include the following

1. Human interest angle
2. Relevance
3. Impact (data)
4. Oddity/ extraordinary angle
5. Conflict
6.Timeliness
7. Prominence
8. Simple language
9. Use of graphics and active photos
10. what is the call to action ?
11. Proximity to the audience ?

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Good story is the one that touches souls. Perosnal story, sincere, honest and intimate. if it makes the audience aware about some issues that people encounter, it changes their mind.

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A story has, first and foremost, to obey the oldest rule, of having a beginning, a middle and and end. For the purposes of news it needs to answer the 5 Ws and the H early in, but an audiovisual story can take some liberties with that format. Often the story will focus on a central character or hero, sometimes, in the humanitarian world, the disaster, the disease, the war, will be the (anti)hero. It's rare (but not impossible) to tell a humanitarian story without human interest - abandoned villages, destroyed streets, or disasters like Chernobyl are examples of this, where the absence of people becomes the story.

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I agree with what my colleagues have said and I include:
- Human angle
- Significance
- Relatability

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First you need to identify the main character or the "hero" around whom the story is revolving, in addition to the supporting people who will give context to the story. You also need to identify the location of the shooting and the background music. In order to have a compelling story, you need to identify the hook and the "wow" factor that would make the recipients long to read the story or watch the video. For a human-centered story, you always need an emotional connection with the reader and a message of hope, moving away from the gloom and doom. You need to prepare the questions you want to ask the people to get the story out. If you are drafting an article, you have to have a catchy headline and a short and catchy lead followed by a supporting quote to grab the reader and get the hook.

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The essential elements of a good story are the following:

·       First & foremost, make it really interesting, i.e. a story that sparks interest, hope and showcases tangible results/impact on people’s lives.

·       Capture the 5 Ws across the story, while deciding on a specific angle for the story (the people, places, the context etc.)

·       A compelling headline that sparks interest, attention, emotion etc.

·       A compelling lead, with a strong actionable start, which can grab the readers’ attention and spur them to read the full story.

·       Selection of a main character for the story

·       Use of attractive and actionable photos, particularly photos and video testimonials of people.

·       Use of quotes from people

·       A strong end for the story

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When we are telling a story the key elements to ask are :

What the issues or needs and what can we do about it and what will be the impact.  Who is central to the history, for example if that is a human centered story, why should we address the need of the people in a dignity manner with respect to their privacy. We should also be cautious to avoid stigmatise or endanger them. In turn it to an audiovisual way, the headline should be clear, we should begin in a strong angle, get to the point and have a strong end.

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The essential elements of telling a story?
And how do you capture them in an audio-visual way?

Essentials elements of telling a stroy are: the main subject of the narrative (focus) ; the challenge (problem, stress, solution) and the  inspiring imapct .

To capture these elements : Include captivating infos (scene, stats, quotations...) to announce the story; to show the problem and the difficulty or challenge (tension) and end with the solution/change /inspîration.

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Key elements in a story are the collective key messages and visuals.

Definitely a human element is needed to be the character, or the Hero and engage the audience emotions.

In a video the music and sound elements creates an atmosphere through which the viewer interprets everything and captions should highlight the main key messages required supported with facts and figures.

If a voiceover is incorporated to the video, it has to be able to deliver the story theme and feelings.
there should be a call for an action that inspires the audience and explain how they can help and contribute to the needed change.

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Key elements in a story are the message, characters, and context. Then when it comes to how we bind all these together, we should have dignity and hope throughout the storyline.

Audiovisual can bring several good elements into making the story stronger:
- connection to the main character either through their image or voice
- connection to the context through seeing it yourself
- connection to the message through linking all these together
- connection to emotions: how things are presented, choice of colours, editing etc. has a great impact on how the visuals are seen and what emotions we want to evoke.

The visual, whether it is photography, videography or graphic design, has a big impact on how the textual elements are understood.

Do we choose to always use pink when talking about little girls, women's issues or motherhood? Do we use blue or grey when talking about politics and economy? Do we use cartoon-style when talking about youth? Sometimes we can recreate stereotypes, sometimes break them, when choosing the visuals. TikTok and LinkedIn might require different style of motion graphics. The visual changes as the audience, channel, and message change.

In a video, choice (or lack of) music and sound elements creates an atmosphere through which the viewer interprets everything.

For example, the same video with a majestic orchestra music in the background will leave a totally different impression than while using something light and playful like an ukulele as an instrument.

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The essential elements in my opinion are:
- Appealing/interesting story and character(s)
- UN relevant topic
- Authenticity

Capturing them in an audi-visual way:
-Emotions
-Realness
-Setting

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The essential elements of a story include: the narrative, a strong story that can captivate, a creative way of telling that story and maintaining your audience interested. This can only be done by creating a good environment with the characters to be featured in the piece, gaining their trust and making them feel at ease. This can help in conveying honesty which in the ends helps create relatable characters and ultimately motivates action.

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1. Character - emotional, relatable, "human"
2. Emotions
3. Challenge vs results = hope
4. dignity and best interest of the child

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The essential elements of storytelling are:
1. Hook= Title used should be compelling.
2. 5 W's and the H= include it in the 60 seconds on the audio-visual content.
3. Pictures/images should relate to the story. The before and after content.
4. The narrative is quite important as it tells the storyline.

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Essential elements of telling a story:

Identification of who's story you are going to communicate (the hero around who the story will revolve)

What's their story (understand their past experiences, what brought them to this point)

Good understanding of context (to understand sensitivities while also taking ques from the subject)

How has the impact of the UN been on them (identify the life changing support, that if not for it the subject would not be able to move forward)

Relatability to the audience (how many others are out there, what can the audience do to support more people)

How do you capture them:

Setting- making sure the subject is comfortable in their own setting (house/ village, etc.) to prevent adding any pressure or nervousness on the subject

Authenticity - show it as it is. Most often video crews would try to clean up surroundings/ make changes which wouldn't help the end product of being an authentic depiction of the story

Language - ensure you communicate in their language, use local audio-visual crews who would not only have the language advantage but also know of any sensitivities when depicting the subject

Don't over script - while questions/scripts help guide the conversation, trying to get the subject to mention the UN agency or the project name are not essential. Don't lose the plot

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The essential elements for  telling a story me are:
- Appealing/interesting main character(s)
- Topics are relevant to UN works in the area
- Positive approach when telling stories

I always prefer to capture them naturally to tell stories in a most humble way and go to the heart of readers/viewers.

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Lenka Ctvrteckova, UNICEF Czech Republic

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Lenka Ctvrteckova, UNICEF Czech Republic

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– a clear and strong message that will motivate people to action
– the hook that will attract readers and keep them engaged
– a relatable hero overcoming obstacles
– the 5 Ws

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Authenticity
Knowledge of the situation

Create emotional connection with the audience
A call to action
An increased awareness of you and your brand
Key points and essential learnings
The visuals
The connection

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- Strong introduction / hook
- A relatable character
- Challenge / problem
- 5 Ws
- CTA or some sort of positive wrap-up

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Stories are formed by the hook, characters, a specific setting and its own narrative.

It is key that the main character is well crafted through a conflict/solution journey.

I think the story should cover 5 Ws and also go beyond them, adding emotions and diverse voices.

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The essential elements when telling a story is to respect the rule of five Ws and How. It means you should have a strong character, an original human centered angle, a nice shooting and excellent editing skills. For digital platform, it is useful to start your story in a very attractive and creative way, so that the audience stays beyond the 3 first seconds, if not they may not watch your story.

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The tried and tested 5 Ws (Who, Why, When, What, Where) and H (How?)

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Farjana Sultana, UNFPA, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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Farjana Sultana, UNFPA, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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The character is the key to any story, as is the way in which the narration hooks that character.
To convey the story's central message, we must capture the appropriate character feeling and convey it to the reader. Thus strengthening the context and attracting the audience's attention.

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Key elements of storytelling include:

1. An intro or a hook
2. Characters, the key story teller
3. Key problem being addressed
4. Clear indication of who, why, when, what, where and how

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The essential elements of telling a stories are the 4w and the h, a protagonist, and a development. Capturing that audio-visually depends on the case, resources, platforms and audience, alongside other factors. One way would be to interview the protagonist on camera. Another would be to record their voice, and potentially overlay images. It could be staged with actors. Cameras could be given to the protagonists, potentially with some guidance, to tell their story themselves. These are just examples.

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-The characters,
-The narrative : key message and the way it is being told

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Key elements of storytelling include:

1. A hook (whether in a key message or headline)
2. Characters, with one hero that leads the story
3. A plot with a clear key moment that the story is about/leading up to
4. Clear indication of who, why, when, what, where and how

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The main components are: the characters, the setting, the plot, the conflict, and the resolution. These elements allow the action to develop in a logical way that the audience can follow.

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First we need to identify the story and make sure that there is a story to tell.

The important elements are the main character/player and supporting characters, the environment they operate in and the challenges and the odds they face and how they overcome these challenges to carry on  with life and what is being done to change their situation.
We can capture them by them giving them voices, presenting their environment and their situation and the emotions in a dignified way.

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It is crucial to know your character. To talk to them, know what he/she thinks and what wants to share about herself.
It is also important to have a context beforehand and knowing what do you want to talk about.
Four audio-visual purposes, quality is key. The organization has to invest in equipment and/or budget to hire professionals in the matter. A low-key audio-visual product might compromise the dignity of the character and the organization's reputation.

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+ The hook
+ the characters and the little qualities that make them stand out; who's the main actor?
+ the theme/issue
+ the narration
+ the visual effects/the way it is shot technically

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Elements of Storytelling:
1. Setting,
2.Characters,
3. Plot,
4. Conflict,
5. Theme,
6. Narrative Arc,
(Source: POND5 Blog)

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- A narrative arc
- The hook (title and subtitle)
- The lead
- A hero
- An inspiring action
- How can the viewer/reader HELP?

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1. Character, what happened, what is the context
2. Wait and capture the moment that can best show the story in a photo

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To tell a story the essential elements are: what do we want to highlight? when and where the facts occur? the lesson learned or what the reader needs to remember.

Visually we can capture this by :
using a catchy title and image, links to videos or explicit reports, data, infographics or a quote in the headline

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Essential elements are the Who, Why, When, What, Where,  and How?

The capturing of them depends in many ways, as a picture is worth a thousand words, and using audio-visual to tell the story means you should show more than you tell.

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The essential elements to tell a compelling story is
- Use a short and precise title that compels the reader to open & read the story
- Having in mind the subject or main character
- Define context clearly of the story
- Highlight key message of the story
- Articulate the impact of the story in consideration of 5 Ws format.

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Be clear about who is the focus of the story. Give them a voice, write and tell their story in a way that makes it easy to empathize with them.

Make it a real story, bring it to life: there is someone behind those lines, behind that story. Someone who is suffering, living a certain situation. Someone who could be anyone.

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- Have a good message/story to tell/deliver.

- Have a charismatic person who transmits the message and who is capable of capturing the public and getting them to sympathize with him and commit to the story to take action.

- Have good images/audio to illustrate the story and the hero.

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In order to build one relevant story, you should have one main idea, characters and a message. With this three elements you could generate the grammatical structure following the basic path: Who, Why, When, What , Where and How.

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Sandra Black, Communications Consultant, Maputo, Mozambique

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Sandra Black, Communications Consultant, Maputo, Mozambique

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Essential elements of a story include:
- voice of affected people, and creating connection between audience and that person. To capture this in a AV medium - I would aim for close up shots of the protagonist/ in their daily activities, and having them speak and be filmed on camera to tell their personal story.
- setting / context- take B-roll footage of the surrounding environment and the spaces of the daily life of the protagonist, so the viewer can feel like they can see/ feel the situation.
- supporting characters- potentially include voices of family members/ community members of the protagonist, or if a short piece, images of other affected people.

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The essential elements of a story are

Have in mind the context of in the story to be told

Identify strong main character

Highlight key message of the story.

Clearly articulate the impact of the story while answering the 5 Ws.

Have a powerful headline and captivating captions.

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The main thing is to know what we want to write for. Then, we need a main character who does not necessarily have to be a human being.
The climax of the story is very imporant but we don´t have to forget the end of the history because here it is where we will engage people with the objective we are following.

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The first thing is that the writer feels and gets involved in the story when writing it.

Use clear language that the target audience can understand.

Choose a story that is powerful and different from what has been told before and, if the story has already been told, use a new point of view.

It is important that the viewer empathizes with the story or characters.

Telling a story in an audiovisual way is different from telling it in the form of an article. In an article you have to describe everything you want to tell, but a video or image can speak for itself. You have to know how to interweave text and image and if you don't do it well you can lose the narrative thread.

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The essential elements of a story are
- the hero/character that is central in the story.
- the focus of the story and the key message.
- Turning point where then things start to change in the story.
- answering the 5 Ws.
- Impact, outcome and result,
- then last but not least is the captivating headline and the wow effect. Make the story an interesting one.

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-A character / the hero
-the why you are telling the story and try to share the feelings to capture the viewers
-conflict to create suspense and capture the attention
-the turning of the plot
-the desicion that is going to change the path of our hero
-the climax
-the getting back to reality and explaining how this has changed the current life of our main character

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A story
The hook (title and subtitle)
A hero
An inspiring action
among others...

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I think that the most essentials parts to any story would be:
- setting a context to the story - audience has to understand the context, the background, the setting where the story is unfolding;
- protagonist or a focus area - something that grabs viewers' attention - the centrepiece of the story, its main character/feature;
- strong, powerful and clear message - what do we want to tell by this story, the message should be clear and unambigious, it should be evocative and thought-provoking;
- ideally, call to action, or a glimpse of hope - a small 'promise' that things can get better

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Is it fiction, documentary, animation or news? Storytelling is important in all of these formats, and yet the selection of "characters" varies a lot in meaning and purpose depending on which format. Usually, audio-visual material needs a plot, with characters, conflitc, events, climax and - maybe - a resolution.

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Essential elements of a story:
- relatable human characters
-a slice of the human condition/experience that people can relate to, especially ones driven by emotion such as fear, hope, relief, pride
- context to situate the story into wider phenomenon
- facts/stats to demonstrate the scope of the problem
- solutions
- action calls - how can readers/viewers participate in the solution

Essentials for capturing stories in audio-visual formats:
- consent from participants
- strong, relevant visuals that establish the scope or impact of the issue
- interviews with compelling soundbytes
- crisply written narratives or captions
- high quality equipment
- manageable duration of videos

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To me the human angle is the most impactful because it captures the reader's emotions. A picture speaks a thousand words and provoke strong emotions. Retaining the dignity of the humans behind the story is very important, so a picture of farmer facing his parched and cracked field or hands showing a meal being cooked with sparse supplies would be equally effective and more dignified than showing a malnourished person.

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Captivating. Right Color and Tone. Short, Crisp without jargons.
Capturing story requires going in field, observing silently and puting oneself in the audience shoe, carefully visualizing from an audience perspective, then tuning to capture the right shot and feel.

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A character with an untold story that allowed to explain/present a bigger issue, a challenge. An individual story itself is not enough.
And how this challenge has been overcome by the character.the community, and if relevant, with what UN input
Answer the 5W and H either with words or image.
Buildig the narrative with a strong lead/intro that capture the the viewer interest, insert tension/twist, resolution, or unexpected outcome to maintain attention through the end.
No morale and do not make the audience feel guilty. The piece can start a conversation, raise awarness or call to action depending of your objective.

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Among the essential elements to tell a story we have the character and his background/contexts, which shape the story. It is also essential to have a well-defined structure and include details that help the readers/viewers immerse themselves in the story. Actually, those details such as gestures, postures... help you describe the character in an audiovisual way so that the public can understand him/her better.

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The essential elements of telling a story are:
- introduction with a strong lead
- ensuring there is a psychological journey
- having a focus character around which the story is structured.
- capturing background images and sounds.

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The character/hero: what is their story about and why is it important. when and where is it happening, and the emotion.

The setting,character, conflict, action, the plot, the team. finally, the impact, solution and vital information of the programme and interesting data.

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Context, Character, Status Quo, Adventure/Challenge, Resolution.

While setting those lots of b-rolls to support the story to give clues about the environment and surroundings and to avoid the talking heads.

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A challenge
A hero
A plot
Action
Solution, or impact on audience

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For me, essential elements of telling a story are:

-  Understand about the context (research in advance to understand about the context)

-  Identify characters for the story

-  Know what allows, what not allows

-  Tell the story in dignity manner

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I think you should understand the situation, meaning that if you only reflect on a moment, this must have all the information to describe the past, present and hopefully the future.
As we learned, I think having material from 'the before' is a good element in making a whole story.

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Ekaterina Polishchuk, UNV Europe and CIS 

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Ekaterina Polishchuk, UNV Europe and CIS 

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Elements:
- strong but ethical capture / lead
- clear and short context
- character, good if character exists
- structure, of start, climax and end
- what are impacts/results?
- emotions that uplift to act and to do the best

Capture:
- I prefer heroes in the context
- Taken within diversity, integrity, and professionalism (UN Values)
- Giving hope, not negative prospective

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*Writing an audio visual story nowadays must be compelling at a certain extend . In order to reach such aim , the story must be structured from the beginning , the middle and the end .

*A background , a lead emphasizing the theme that we want talk about is critical .

* Photos or videos must be taken in a way that people can rapidly understand the link to your story .

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Agnes Kante, UNAIDS Liaison Office, Addis Ababa

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Agnes Kante, UNAIDS Liaison Office, Addis Ababa

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Essential elements about telling a story: background/context, the characters of the stories, the challenges/issues they are facing, the 5Ws and H (what, where, when, who, why, how), and possibly to what positive impact and change you expect this story to trigger or drive.

To capture them in an audio-visual way: pictures/videos often say more than words, but it is important to have a clear message to avoid confusion and/or misinterpretation. I would say depending on the issue, the focus needs to be clear (could be on the people themselves, the context they live in, the nature etc.). Audio-visuals can trigger very powerful emotions quicker with the right combination of audio and visual.

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protagonist and antagonist
conflict
wow effect

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- Characters people care about
- A challenge people understand or identify with
- A journey of some kind
- A call to action or proposed way forward

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Essential elements that keep a story running smoothly are the characters, the context, the plot, the conﬂict/struggle, and the resolution. Unless we have characters with whom we can relate, it is hard to immerse ourselves in a story. Other important elements are simple but evocative language and visuals. One way to capture this in an audio-visual way might be setting the story as seen through the eyes of one of the characters, from the perspective of the main character telling his/her own story.