When creating a story for a strategic purpose, you must first identify key components of the organizational objectives and perform initial research. In industry, this first stage of development is often proposed to leadership and/or a client in the form of a pitch. In a story pitch, you provide the foundational concepts of the story and seek approval to continue developing the story.
Two foundational concepts are the story message and target audience. Remember that target audiences must be well-defined and specific. Extremely large, vague, or loosely defined audiences will make it difficult to create story components that meet the needs of the entire audience. Target audiences should be defined using a variety of descriptors that clearly delineate members of the target audience from people who are not members of the target audience. The work for this milestone is the first step in creating your storyboard presentation, which will be delivered as the project for this course.
Scenario
You are a communications consultant being asked to create a storyboard presentation for a campaign sponsored by an organization looking to engage their audience in some way. The details for each scenario are vague, allowing you to add your own details if you would like, but you cannot revise or remove what is already listed in the scenario.
Choose one of the following scenarios:
• A non-profit organization focused on saving endangered wildlife wants to raise awareness about the impact of natural disasters on wildlife.
• A non-profit organization that operates a food pantry and kitchen is having difficulty retaining volunteers to work in positions that do not directly work with the people the organization serves (such as stocking shelves and early morning kitchen prep).
• A non-profit organization that works with LGBTQIA+ youth is looking to promote their new 24/7 crisis text line service and recruit volunteers to work as crisis counselors.
• A for-profit organization that manufactures furniture wants to increase the sales of its new line of tables that can extend in multiple directions to accommodate up to 20 people.
• A for-profit organization that provides financial planning services wants to announce its new office in a country outside of the United States.
• A county public health department is concerned that the people living in the county do not trust their information or recommendations because of the negative implications of being a government organization.
