Adding Sparkle to Your Story
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Storytelling is an essential part of raising awareness for how nurturing touch and communication makes an impact in lives and within communities. In The Importance of Storytelling Blog we go over the details of how to craft your story. Please take a moment to read over the tips before creating a video or adding extras to your written piece. In this blog we are helping you add extra elements to your story with tips about videos and what to add to your story once written.
How do you make your story stand out? You have already done the hard part in writing it; now it’s time to put the sparkle in it! Below are some tips for video and written stories to do just that.
Video
Before starting the video take a look around to make sure you can focus on telling your story. A few key things can help set the mood and quality of your video. These are the basic things to look at before you begin to record.
Location - Pick a location that is quiet and away from distractions.
Lighting - Find a spot that has natural lighting or bring a lamp in the space.
Positioning of Camera- Make sure your camera is at eye level with an unclutter background. If you are using your phone please turn it horizontally.
Written Story
Your story is written but you feel like it is missing something? It’s images! You have heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words because it’s true! Pick one to three images to upload to your story. Below we go over what type of images to look for to enhance your story.
Examples of Images
Images that promote the intimacy of infant massage & families
Ideally showing connection / eye contact
Clean / uncluttered images
High resolution
Your story really sparkles and stands out now! Don’t forget to upload your story and nominate another who is using nurturing touch and communication in their lives or within their community. Thank you for sharing your story with Infant Massage USA.