Chris's Story
It's the way you tell em! For as long as I can remember I've been helping tell other people's stories. From the touring production of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat around every classroom at my primary school, to producing the outdoor spectacular for the Queen's Golden Jubilee... I'm not sure about my schoolmates but the Queen thought she got a cool gig.
I've always preferred putting other people on the stage - I get a kick out of the design, planning and production that makes it all happen... then standing back while others take the spotlight. So when it comes to storytelling in business I do much the same thing for our clients. Listening and understanding their story and then exploring new and imaginative ways of bringing them to life through multimedia, print, web and live communication.
Outside work much of my time is spent restoring a rambling 17th Century farm to its former glory in my beloved Yorkshire Dales and, whenever I can, watching films, going to the theatre and concerts and generally seeing how others are telling em!
Posts by Chris Spencer
27th Sep 2005 @ 1.38pm
Yup, we knew it all along. There’s no substitute for the human being when it comes to communication, but when you can’t get a load of humans in one place and at one time, the next best thing has to be the human voice - even if it doesn’t have a face on the end of it! Podcasting is simple, and as Steve Smith observes, ‘this is new technology that revives our appreciation of the oldest medium.’ If, as he says, old fashioned storytelling may be the most engaging use of podcasting, then bring it on….
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15th Aug 2005 @ 5.00pm
I thought it fitting that today, the 60th anniversary of the end of the war between the Allies and Japan, we should make reference to Bristol-based designer Nick Hind’s Living Museum.
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6th Jul 2005 @ 8.58am
I hear the BBC is bringing Jackanory back to our screens. When you consider how sophisticated childrens’ TV has become, the simplicity of a presenter reading direct to camera might seem at odds. Just shows how the charms of old-fashioned storytelling never go away….
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1st Mar 2005 @ 11.47am
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
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