Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify storytelling requirements
- Discuss with relevant personnel storytelling briefs, including target audience, format, timelines and delivery platforms
- Identify purpose of dialogue, characters, point of view and setting to help structure storylines
- Discuss with relevant personnel possible visual and aural storytelling structures that would meet the requirements of briefs
- Prepare to write stories
- Research stories from a range of creative works that may inspire story ideas that meet requirements of briefs
- Use information sources to research subject areas
- Experiment with linear and non-linear storyline structures
- Use imagination to develop ideas for characters, plots and settings
- Develop ideas for scenarios, contexts and situations in which characters act, react and resolve
- Select story structure and content that best meet requirements of briefs
- Seek feedback from relevant personnel on proposed story and refine approach as required
- Draft stories
- Use a creative writing style appropriate to specified stories
- Use tools to draft stories
- Use correct grammar, appropriate punctuation and accurate spelling
- Proofread copy to check for spelling, grammatical, typographic and other errors
- Submit draft stories to relevant personnel for feedback and amend as required
- Refine stories