QIdeas has a great video by Bobette Buster. It is an edited version of a longer talk she gives on the Art of Storytelling.
In it she talks about how the power of stories from the time of the Industrial Revolution, through the Holocaust up until today.
She emphasises that the stories that resonate with us are stories of transformation, where people become fully alive, or the converse, a cautionary tale where through their choices people become the living dead. She points out that these issues of reinvention and redemption are the issues that draw us in to stories.
She points out that from a technical point of view we have mastered every aspect of film-making. The one aspect of film-making that we have not mastered however, is story-telling. The challenge for us is to become experts in this art so that we can tell compelling stories to a world that is yearning for them
