Process for Developing a Basic Recorded Minority Language Story Set

• Choose language dialect
• Make initial contacts with local workers/believers
• Meet local people and discuss areas of worldview.
  • Concept of God
  • Concept of sin
  • Concept of man's need
  • Concept of why man needs God
  • Concept of spirit world
  • Understanding/misunderstanding of Bible - what do they know of Bible stories
  • Concept of what provision God has made
  • General Roman Catholic doctrines that are present in society
  • Understanding of sin- what was the first sin?
  • Understanding of sacrifice
  • Understanding of local evangelicals - legalism - sacerdotalism
  • Where do they get their understanding of God's word
  • What does "la Palabra de Dios" mean?
  • What are special sins that God dislikes?
  • Favorite stories
  • Have them tell stories of their town, history, "chistes" see what kind of animation and expression they use.
  • Difference between telling a true story and a fictional story?
• Chose stories
  • Basic OT and NT stories
  • Decision may have to be made given amount of stories that can fit into delivery mechanism (60 minute tapes?) I suggest developing necessary story set and working from there rather than from time limitations.
• Develop stories in simple intermediary language (Spanish)
• Check stories for difficult terms in minority language.
  • Work with group in developing appropriate terms (e.g. desert)
• Tell story set in fast track mode
  • Work to prepare translator in preparing for fast track conference.
  • Invite a group of about 10 to a three day story telling conference
  • Stories are told with translator (if necessary)
  • From the beginning ask if they can retell stories faithfully
  • Have them practice.
  • For this purpose dialogue will be less intensive than normal storying proceedure
  • Dialogue mainly to make sure they understood the story clearly
  • Let at least a week go by so the stories will begin to take form in their mind
• Train storyers
  • It may be necesary to leave them a recording of the stories they will be telling in simple Spanish so they can review.
  • The purpose is to have a told story, not a read story
  • Gather the people who appear to be the best possibility for recording
  • Tell story,
  • have them repeat
  • Have them determine if the story was told correctly
  • Work on expression and story telling style
• Record
  • Record story before the group using wireless microphone to give liberty and encourage good expression.
  • Ask group if story is well told
  • Ask translator if the story is well told
  • Have another person tell it again
  • Do not force this time. Allow for several sessions so as to not put undue pressure on storiers and yourself.
• Post recording production
  • Have professionals do post production cleanup and packaging
  • Pay for a bilingual minority language speaker to go to studio for post production consultation.
• Test recorded stories
  • Check the recorded stories with a broad spectrum of believers
  • Was the story biblical?
  • Is the story easy to understand?
  • Is the story attractive to the hearer?
  • Does the story come accross as true?
  • Are people likely to be impacted by the set of stories?
  • What distribution suggestions do you have?
• If necessary, re-train and re-record stories that do not make the grade
• Develop distribution package
  • Radio
  • Cassette
  • CD
  • Print???
• Distribution
  • Op Go?
  • At market?
  • House to house?
  • Decisions must be based on
    • economy,
    • availability of technology
    • security
    • appropriateness
    • wide distribution opportunities
  • Consider multiple media.
• Other Issues
  • The decision may be made to use only one or two storiers for taping purposes.
    • Advantages:
      • Consistency may be maintained in stories.
      • You can choose your best storiers
    • Disadvantages: