Read in Dotson’s book pages 55 thru 71. Then:

1. What do you find most interesting about what he says on these pages? What stands out as particularly useful to you as a storyteller? (75 words)

what stood out to me particularly useful as a storyteller was how he talks about how you should pick your soundbites and that you should keep a journal of soundbites because you never know when they'll be useful. I also like how he explains that to choose the proper soundbite the soundbite should make a lump in your throat, and that it should make you feel an emotion whether it be happy or sad or mad but it should stick in their head.

To answer the rest, you must visit the site for Boyd Huppert’s Land of 10,000 Stories(http://www.kare11.com/news/investigative/extras/stories.aspx). Pick two that look interesting. Watch them. Then, pick one of those and answer the following prompts about it, please:
2. What is the name of the story, and on what date did it first air?

pianist loses fingers in snowblower, lives to play it first aired on january 21st 2013

3. List and describe four instances of natural sound. 

the piano, the snowblower, car passing by, the bandage velcro being put on, crowd clapping

4. List and describe (including the type and what they are showing) four camera shots that you find interesting.

an angled shot of him playing the piano, a wide shot of him standing on the driveway where it happened, a wide shot from on the stage into the audience during one of his songs, a tight shot into the snowblower showing how it happened
5. Write a possible focus statement for the story (strong verbs; no “-ing” words)

7 fingered piano player
6. How does this story utilize Dotson’s “Building Blocks” (from Page 68)? Discuss a few of them, please. (100 words)

they used good pictures by when he was playing piano putting together good sequences of wide medium tight type sequences. he also utilizes the natural sound by throughout almost the entire story they have his piano playing music going on which makes it interesting as well as the crowd cheering for him after he finishes a performance. he also does really well using soundbites like in one part instead of using an entire soundbite of the piano player telling what happened he just uses a soundbite that is him explaining his reaction briefly while bringing different emotions into it as well.