 Hi, I'm David Gonzalez. In this short video series, I'm going to introduce you to the four main elements of storytelling. I think of them as four rivers, words or the text, movement, how the body shows the story, the voice that is the sound of the story, and the imagination. When these four rivers flow together, that's when a good story comes alive. In this episode, we're going to look at movement. That is how the body helps tell the pictures of the story. I'm going to tell you an excerpt, a short part, from a Colombian story called Vovo. Then we'll look at what I did and some things that you can do to be a better storyteller, too. The story begins like this. My name is Vovo. I'm big and bad. My name is Vovo. Don't make me mad. Once upon a time, there was a boy named Vovo who had a bow and an arrow made of wood. He was 100% pure. Imagination. He was just a kid and couldn't have a real bow and arrow, but he wanted to be a hunter because his sisters were already married to the three biggest, strongest hunters in the village. Vovo wanted to be like them. My name is Vovo. I'm big and bad. My name is Vovo. Don't make me mad. One day, he shouldn't have done it, but he did. Vovo snuck into the hunter's hut and when he saw the real bow and the real arrow, he just had to pick them up. So you can see how I'm using my hands, my shoulders, my eyes to tell the story. It's a big part of what a storyteller does. It helps you see the story, but it also helps me to tell it because when I become that character, then I can feel that character. And when I feel that character, I can speak that character. Some things you can try are think of a story you'd like to tell and think of the main characters and try to make a statue of those people or those animals or those creatures. Make that statue and then let it go. Then think of another character. Make that statue and let it go. Try to make these statues and then move from one to the other and that will help you to tell your story in pictures. This program has been brought to you by Kinects.