I came across this story through the game Never Alone/Kisima Ingitchuna. Within the game there are small clips of documentary, and within these they tell the story of how the Inupiaq people still to this day tell stories, through dance and song by campfire, and how they still carve stories into shells and bones. This fascinated me and made me want to look into how stories have evolved through history.
Audience wise, I have aimed this at a more middle aged and older group 40+ because I believe that it would interest people who have witnessed the change in technology, and the change of stories, more broadly than that of what an 18-year-old knows or has seen.
I felt that a timeline would be appropriate for this, as it is the easiest way to map down all the key points through history in an easy to read diagram of sorts. The text within each stage of the timeline can give the reader a bit of broader knowledge on the specific area that they are looking at whilst the images help to explain the stage visually.
Although the story line shown tells how technology has advanced how we tell stories, it also shows how in the past 200 years we have commercialized one of the oldest forms of communication into a media empire of conglomerate companies.
For this story I did come across quite a major ethical issue, which is that some cultures have not changed their ways of telling stories in thousands of years due to tradition, and other cultures reached certain advancement before others.
It is important to appreciate this, and understand that although us as a western culture have a certain way of seeing the world it doesn’t mean that is how the world is.
When I first began to make this time line I assumed that it was the development of all storytelling, but like I have said this is merely one way of examining the development of storytelling.