What qualities of story have contributed to the success of highly acclaimed natural history films

摘要: ) Stories are complicated to define but undoubtedly important in contributing the success of natural history films. Strong narratives not only affect viewer engagement with documentaries have also been shown positively impact educational qualities a film, implications for science communication. This thesis aims characterise effective storytelling and scrutinise performance highly acclaimed this area. In investigation, an element receiving particular focus is set criteria put forth by Andrew Stanton, filmmaker writer behind stories several well-known Pixar Stanton’s successful engaging used analyse five films: Kangaroo Dundee: Episode One, Green, Chimpanzee, My Life as Turkey my own A Beetle Abroad. study found that these performed strongly terms their according criteria.