The Art of Story Telling (Part 2) with Mehak Mirza Prabhu [#TBS Eps 13]
Story Teller, Coach and writer Mehak Mirza Prabhu talks about fundamentals of Story Telling, developing characters, balancing between practice and spontaneity and pursuing a career in story telling.
This is our second episode in the Story telling series. A few weeks back, we had International award winning story teller Geeta Ramanujan speak on the art of story telling. In this episode we continue our conversation on story telling with another incredible story teller and coach Mehak Mirza Prabhu.
Mehak Mirza Prabhu is a storyteller, writer and Tedx speaker. She creates fictional stories in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi and English. Her unique strength is Audio visual storytelling through voice modulations. She is also a blogger, scriptwriter and social reform enthusiast. To share her craft with the world Mehak runs an online storytelling school called ‘Jhumritaliaya’, dedicated towards merging classic storytelling form, with original stories that reflect recent times. In this episode we discuss about story telling and pursuing a career in story telling.
Important Questions from the Episode
1. What is a story? (2 min 45 Sec)
2. What got you hooked to story telling? (3 min 25 Sec)
3. How did you sharpen your skills? (7 min 28 Sec)
4. Balancing between instincts and deliberate effort? (13 min 18 Sec)
5. Please describe your process of creating a story (16 min 55 Sec)
6. How do you perform the same story 100 times and still feel the same emotions every single time? (19 min 53 Sec)
7. How to develop character for stories? (22 min 40 Sec)
8. How about performing characters on stage? (25 min 35 Sec)
9. How do you use props to enhance the visualization of your story? (28 min)
10. What if the audience doesn’t respond the way you expect them? (30 min 37 Sec)
11. Zoning out on stage ? (31 min 40 Sec)
12. Your thoughts on voice modulation? (33 min 12 Sec)
13. What is story tellers Riyaz? (35 min 56 Sec)
14. What role does language play in story telling? (37 min 13 Sec)
15. What are the tools that a story have to sharpen his or her skill? (40 min 18 Sec)
16. Have you ever read/narrated anyone else story on stage? (42 min 56 Sec)
17. How can Some pursue a career as a story teller? What are the different ways in which one can earn as story teller? (44 min 30 Sec)
18. Do you reach out to corporate directly or they reach out to you?(50 min 24 Sec)
19. How do you respond to people who tell you “I want to quit my job and be a story teller? (52 min, 50 sec)
20. What is the most difficult about mentoring someone? (57 min, 05 sec)
21. 3 big take aways (1hr, 03min, 40 sec)
Links Related to Mehak
2. Email-Mirza.mehk@gmail.com
4. Tedx Talk